My old Koch-fellow friend Rhys Southan, also a former Reason intern, has written a short film that’ll be showing next week at the D.C. independent film festival. Doubtless worth checking out.

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If any of you poor doomed bastards are awake at 6am EST on Saturday morning, I’m slated to be on Austrian radio (click “stream” at the top of the page) talking about Alfred Kinsey and some of the things I wrote about in this piece.

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If we don’t count a mid-February test post to see whether Blogger was working, this Friday marks the third birthday of Notes from the Lounge.

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“Going Gentle,” about the last phase of the challenge to Oregon’s assisted suicide law.

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Will Wilkinson has posted the third in his “Letters to a Young Objectivist” series, this time dealing with Rand’s ethics. I was never really an Objectivist, as Will was, but did also grapple with her ideas back in the day—something I still think was a useful exercise. I was intrigued to note, though, that the […]

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Philosopher Peter Unger, with whom I studied at NYU, writes regarding the kerfuffle over Ross Douthat’s claim in The Atlantic that modern philosophy departments “have largely purged themselves of metaphysicians and moralists.” Says Unger: I noticed that, a couple of weeks ago, you had an interchange with one Ross Douthat, apparently a Harvard graduate who […]

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