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Jerry Kirkpatrick's Blog

2007

Does Subliminal Advertising Exist?, January 1

Healthy and Unhealthy Competition, January 21

Why Does Capitalism Need To Be Defended?, February 15

The Market Gives Privilege To No One, March 13

Drop Errors and the Trouble with Peer Review, April 11

Describe, Don't Evaluate, May 3

The Market Function of Piracy, May 21

Privilege, Peer Review, and Piracy: Q & A, June 26

Curiosity for Subtle Detail, July 27

The Dangerous Admiration of BS, August 30

Go Fish!, September 26

The Ethics and Epistemology of Peer Review, October 24

"It's Just Being Turned into a Business," November 26

Sound or Independent Judgment?, December 26

2008

On Judging the Quality of Today's Students, January 25

Postmodernism and the Next Failure of Socialism, February 21

Dewey in Context, March 16

Because the Stakes Are So Small, April 14

Rules vs. Principles, May 16

Caterpillars into Butterflies, June 13

Peddlers of Ideas, July 17

Ensuring That Disposition Trumps Situation, August 12

The Two Liberalisms, September 8

The Child As Small Adult, October 23

Coerced Altruism, Involuntary Servitude, and Contempt for the Less Well Off, November 26

Faking Your Way Through Life, December 23

2009

The Von Domarus Principle and the Nature of the Subconscious Mind, January 20

Why the World Is Not Going to Hell in a Basket, February 15

Life in Three-Quarter Time, March 23

The Epistemology of Ethics, Salesmanship, and Basket Weaving, April 26

On Extrinsic Motivation, Bureaucracy, and the Stage-Mother Syndrome, May 18

The Ethics of Accreditation, June 23

Ignorance versus Dishonesty, July 20

The Importance of Philosophy to a Successful Business Career, August 24

Interest and the Core Curriculum, September 8

The Primacy of Method, October 9

Education and the Rent Control Model of Monopoly, November 16

Education in One Lesson, December 17

2010

"You Can Get It in the Book," January 22

The Factory Model of Education, Technocracy, and the Free School Movement, February 15

Teaching versus Learning versus Doing, March 24

The Courage to be Patient, April 27

Ideas Kill, May 20

Rankism and the Well-Earned Disrespect of Some Teachers, June 21

Choice Theory and Capitalism versus Dictatorship, July 16

Questions about Independent Judgment, August 17