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I Want to Die a Wealthy Man

Ari Andersen | Posted 01.23.2014 | Healthy Living
Read More: Life's Purpose, Connection, Purpose, Mindfulness, Distraction, Human Connection, Technology Distractions, Malibu, Woody Harrelson, Technology, Distractions, Thomas Hobbes, Owen Wilson, Death, Healthy Living News
Ari Andersen

For the first time in my life I can do whatever I want to do, yet I sometimes find myself wishing the hours of the day would move faster. I am filled with self-doubt about my ability to do something meaningful. I do not think I am alone in thinking these things.

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The "Politics" of Business

Zachary K. Pearce | Posted 04.27.2013 | Business
Read More: Leadership, Politics, Alexis De Tocqueville, Freedom, Business News, People, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Democracy, Dictatorship, Business, China, Thomas Hobbes, Management, Organization, Business News
Zachary K. Pearce

Thinking about both democratic and authoritarian regimes, including the dire circumstances surrounding them throughout history, and even in the contemporary world, how do these ideas connect to business? The answer may be more obvious than you think.

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Famous Last Words: Writers' Final Words Before Death

Posted 10.09.2011 | Books
Read More: Writers Last Words, Virgina Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Books News, Jane Austen, Authors Last Words, Franz Kafka, Charlotte Bronte, Famous Last Words, Mark Twain, Last Words, Thomas Hobbes, Books News

A writer's life revolves around always knowing what to say and how to say it. But in the face of death, you'd think fear, pain and pressure would trum...

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Ethiopia: Broken Contract, Broken Faith, Broken Country

Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: American Revolution, Ethiopia Land Grabbing, Ethiopia Proclamation No. 272/2002, Ethiopia Land Speculation, Ethiopia Independent Judiciary, DLA Piper Ethiopia, Ethiopia Leaseholds, Moamar Gadhafi, Gambella Land Grab, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson, Meles Zenawi Contract, Ethiopia Five Year Contract, Addis Ababa Land Grab, EPDRF Contract, French Revolution, C’Est Moi, Saudi Star Agriculture Development Company, Ethiopia Social Contract, Ethiopia Mephistopheles., Ethiopia Indian Investors, Ethiopia Urban Land, Ethiopia Dick Armey, Contract With America, Thomas Hobbes, Ethiopia Contract, American Declaration of Independence, L’ÉTat, World News
Alemayehu G. Mariam

It isn't clear what Zenawi means in his repeated use of the word "contract" to describe the relationship between the people of Ethiopia and his party.

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What Is the Arab Third Estate?

Uriel Abulof | Posted 01.03.2012 | World
Read More: 1848, End of History, What Is the Third Estate, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Egypt Riots, Napoleon Bonaparte, Egypt Internet, Clash of Civilizations, Egyptian Revolution, Spring of Nations, Tunisia Protests, Egypt Revolution, The People Want to Bring Down the Regime, Tahrir Square, Thomas Hobbes, Nationalism, The Middle East, Social Contract, Ethnicity, Failed States, Abbé Sieyès, French Revolution, World News
Uriel Abulof

For two long centuries, the Arab Middle East has struggled to meet the challenge of modernity, a task exacerbated by the lingering, and increasing, dissonance between the glorious past and the shameful present.

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Totalitarianism, Enlightenment Philosophy and Werewolves with Andrea Cremer

Andrew Shaffer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Werewolves, Wolfsbane, Andrea Cremer, The Enlightenment, Nightshade, Thomas Hobbes, Totalitarianism, Books News
Andrew Shaffer

Cremer recently spoke with me about Nightshade, which debuted on The New York Times Bestseller list in October.

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What the BP Oil Spill Tells Us About Human Nature

Andrew Belonsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Deepwater Horizon, Enviornment, BP Oil Spill, News, Politics, Thomas Hobbes, Politics News
Andrew Belonsky

We have seen ecological disasters before, yet we continue to ignore experience and foresight, instead preferring to expand profits.

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The Sun and the Wind: Two Faces of Globalism

James Block | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: 9/11, Obama, Globalism, Jews, Leviathan, Hobbes, China, Barack Obama, Thomas Hobbes, Healthy Living News
James Block

Obama is a global son. He is the child of a white middle-American and a Kenyan villager who named him Hussein. He connects to Asian-Americans as a product of Hawaii and Indonesia.

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