Since August, I’ve been enjoying a two-year appointment as a Visiting Fellow at the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy at Chapman University in Orange County. The institute is named for two people: our colleague Vernon Smith, who won the Nobel prize in economics for his pioneering work on experimental economics, and Adam Smith, the 18th-century economist and moral philosopher most famous for
The pocket particulars are principally about securing our memories about things, places, and people who mean something to us. In a world committed to the meaninglessness of materialism, they remind us of things that are transcendent. Even a pocket globe of the stars reminds us that we are not the center of the universe. In my pocket is an elk antler key fob that is a constant reminder that the beauty of nature is far greater that the change that wears holes in my pocket. Thanks for opening up new avenues of discovery for us. I wish you well with you Smith Institute work.
Is a “ Jews-box” the same as tefillen? Or is there a different meaning?
The pocket particulars are principally about securing our memories about things, places, and people who mean something to us. In a world committed to the meaninglessness of materialism, they remind us of things that are transcendent. Even a pocket globe of the stars reminds us that we are not the center of the universe. In my pocket is an elk antler key fob that is a constant reminder that the beauty of nature is far greater that the change that wears holes in my pocket. Thanks for opening up new avenues of discovery for us. I wish you well with you Smith Institute work.