Regulating the above average: Luck or skill? Considered thinkers from Mandelbrot ('fractals') or Keillor ('Lake Wobegon Days')...
Is the First Amendment the Greatest Right of All? This lecture discusses a hierarchy of rights. Is the First...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...
Might as well toss a coin: How random numbers help us find exact solutions Randomness is clearly important in computer games and in the...
Trust Issues: When Financial "Experts" Have Other Plans Ever wonder if the "experts" managing your money truly have...
London - The Forgotten Hanseatic City: The Hanseatic League The first part of the symposium included the following talks...
Middle Class Recruits to Communism in the 1930s Why did some idealistic young people join the Communist Party...
The Hidden Risks of "I Know Something You Don't" Imagine buying insurance, but the company knows you're less likely...