Nate Oman | January 30, 2009
A while ago, I wrote a brief reply to Ralph Hancock’s article “When Following the Prophet is Too Easy: Against the Identification of Reason with Progressive Liberationism” in the new online journal Squaretwo.org. My reply was posted there, and Ralph has been kind enough to now pen a brief surreply. The original article, which is worth [...]
Nate Oman | January 30, 2009
Yesterday’s discussion got me thinking about debt, in particular the political uses of debt. Here, I think that the experience of the American Revolution and the failure of the Confederacy may have something to tell us about Mormon history.
Nate Oman | January 29, 2009
I much enjoyed this article from the WashPo. Nothing warms my heart like brief moments of awareness about the pretentiousness of pseudo-prophetic politicians:
The lawmakers gazed in awe at the figure before them. The Goracle had seen the future, and he had come to tell them about it.
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John [...]
Nate Oman | January 29, 2009
I have 760 posts on this blog now in a bazillion different categories. Ideally, I would like to reduce the total number of categories down to between five and ten. Let me know if you can suggest a widget, plugin, or method that will let me do this without having to recategorized 760 posts individually. [...]
Nate Oman | January 29, 2009
I recently read Niall Ferguson’s new book The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. I like Ferguson. I enjoyed his book Empire, and I have enjoyed the Ascent of Money. The book is full of striking and well-told anecdotes, although if you know much of anything about finance it can be a [...]
Nate Oman | January 27, 2009
There has been some back in forth in my Inauguration post on the financial crisis. Those interested in such debates might want to check out the latest focus section in The Economist, which has an excellent set of articles on modern finance and the causes of its current woes. Check it out.
Nate Oman | January 26, 2009
I’ve been fiddling with the blog a bit. You’ll notice that I have added a set of rotating links to past posts up in the right hand corner. Also, you’ll notice that at the end of each post and page there is a little printer icon. Click on it to produce a printer friendly version [...]
Nate Oman | January 24, 2009
I am getting ready to watch The Office, which reminds me to blog about some thoughts I have been kicking around about Michael Scott and C.S. Lewis. One of the running gags in The Office — somewhat muted of late — is the odd, almost-but-not-quite sexual attraction of Michael Scott to the Ryan the Temp. [...]
Nate Oman | January 24, 2009
Courtesy of Popular Science.
Nate Oman | January 22, 2009
While I grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, I have spent most of my adult life living on the East Coast, either in Boston or Washington, DC. On the whole, it has been a very good experience for me. I have been able to reap the rewards of mobility and opportunity, much to the [...]
