Thanksgiving Column

  Let’s count our blessings, not only because tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day. (Also Chanukah so this suggests interesting menus.)  Ramona and I have just returned from trips to big cities, Boston, New York, and Chicago.  We were treated well indeed and greatly enjoyed seeing friends and relatives.  Still, I felt blessed to return to Montana. […]

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 Honk if You Love the Mass-Produced Automobile

Honk if You Love the Mass-Produced Automobile

Monday, Oct. 7, will mark the 100th anniversary of the opening of Henry Ford’s moving assembly line for producing the Model T. This innovative production system allowed Ford to double worker pay while cutting the price of his cars in half, making it possible, for the first time, for auto workers to buy the cars […]

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 The World According to Kipling

The World According to Kipling

  At a time when Americans are becoming increasingly dependent, here is a reminder of what liberty and independence really are. ________________________________________ On October 10, 1923, Nobel Prize–winning author Rudyard Kipling delivered the Rectorial Address to the students of St. Andrews University in Scotland. The title of his address was, “Independence.”   For most Americans […]

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Preserving America’s Wild-lands when Governments are Broke & Broken: A proposal for institutional and ecological entrepreneurship

  This week’s FREE Insight is a summary of the talk that I gave yesterday (11/5/13) at Harvard and will also present at NYU Law tomorrow (11/7/13). The full paper can be found by clicking here.   I find fiduciary trusts attractive arrangements for managing parks and wild lands, especially after October 1.  National parks […]

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