When a psychology professor at the University of Toronto publicly rejected the forced use of a set of pronouns, it catapulted him into the news feeds and conversations of millions of people. Jordan Peterson’s enduring renown, however, has been sustained by the immense interest in what he has to say about the deepest questions.

In the early 1990s, historian Eric Foner and Lynne Cheney were interviewed on the talk show Firing Line about the National History Standards, which was enjoying some national attention at the time regarding what account of history was being included in public school textbooks. During the interview, Cheney accused Foner of being an historical revisionist.

The next day, a reporter from Newsweek called Foner up to ask him about the accusation. “Professor Foner, when did all this revisionism begin?”

We all strive for satisfaction and purpose in our lives. We want to do what we love, love what we do, and do it well enough to pay bills and buy groceries. The Japanese have a word for this “sweet spot”: Ikigai, which translates to “a reason for being”. Artists have rendered the overlapping criteria like this:

The UK Independent reported last week that legislators in Iceland have proposed a ban on circumcision of boys. In practice of course, a ban on male circumcisions essentially outlaws Judaism.

According to the Federal Reserve’s Underlying Inflation Gauge, the 12-month inflation growth in December was at 2.98 percent. That’s the highest rate recorded in 136 months, or about 11 years. The last time the UIG measure was as high was in September 2006, when it was at 3 percent. 

Nicolai Foss and I have written a paper criticizing currently fashionable “stakeholder” approaches to the firm and the idea that managers should pursue “corporate social responsibility.” BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who manages $6 trillion in corporate assets, made a splash last month by insisting that corporate executives focus not on shareholders, but on a broader segment of society: ”Companies must ask themselves: What role do we pl

• On February 5, the Reserve Bank of Australia held its key rate steady at 1.5 percent. 
• The Bank of Canada raised its benchmark interest rate to 1.25 percent in January.
• At its February Meeting, the Federal Reserve announced it would hold the Federal Funds Rate steady at 1.5 percent.
• The Bank of England in January warned that it plans to hike rates this year, possibly as early as May.

In Liberalism (p.115), Mises argued that “the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education, [which] must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions.”

The Private Academy project, founded under the umbrella of the Romanian Mises Institute in 2015, started out to do just this: to offer an alternative to the decades of nationalized higher education from which learning needed to be reclaimed and repaired.