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George Gurley
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- Capitalist system promotes change
- February 5, 2012
- In the basement of the newspaper where I worked during the summers of my youth was a prodigious printing press, a rumbling monster that looked like the engine of a Mississippi River steamboat.
- Happiness is hard to quantify
- January 1, 2012
- Economist Carol Graham claims to have created a new science that can measure “the economics of happiness.”
- Shakespeare’s complexity compounds mysteries
- December 3, 2011
- The film “Anonymous” is the most recent installment of the ongoing argument about who wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare.
- Owners are best stewards of land
- October 1, 2011
- Across the gravel road is a small plot of ground of which I am the “steward” — that is to say, the owner.
- Weed mars prairie enjoyment
- September 5, 2011
- Every summer, almost every day, I go out in nature with my mind set on murder. Sericea lespedeza is my quarry, an innocuous-looking plant that spreads like a virus. It can out-compete even native grass.
- Major parties must change their ways
- August 8, 2011
- The political vocation attracts “charlatans, jackals and romantics,” according to one observer. And the worst of these may be the romantics. Charlatans and jackals do mischief. Romantics — those in possession of absolute truth, who dream of “changing the world” and even human nature — can wreak lasting harm.
- Common good calls for sacrifices
- July 3, 2011
- The Douglas County Department of Enlightenment and Coercion paid me a visit the other day, along with the Lawrence Office of Environmental and Social Supervision. Also in attendance were representatives of the Free State Bureau of Restrictions and the Pioneer Office of Entitlements. I counted 42 cars and trucks, each driven by a single individual. (Separate vehicles give individuals quiet time to dream up new regulations and growth prevention initiatives, I learned.)
- Killjoy revels in life’s miseries
- June 5, 2011
- “Our days are a web of petty miseries and is there a greater blessing than to be the ashes of which oblivion is made?”
- U.S. must adjust expectations
- May 1, 2011
- Comparisons between the Roman Empire and America are commonplace but also of enduring interest to pessimists seeking the secrets of decline
- Sixties still divides Americans
- April 3, 2011
- “That Championship Season,” which opened on Broadway in 1972, was a spectacular success, running for 944 performances and winning the Pulitzer Prize. The play is currently being revived and has been the subject of cultural commentaries along with the usual hyper-ventilating reviews.
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