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ndrosenAfter our morning sessions on July 29, we had lunch, and I remember that the hotel staff made me quite a good vegan lunch. I sat next to a Canadian farmer named Don Freeland, whom I had met a few years before. He mentioned that he had two daughters in Toronto. “One of whom is internationally famous,” I observed. [That link is supposed to go to the Wikipedia article about Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Foreign Minister, but there may be a problem.]
Our lunchtime speaker was Anthony Werner from the British publisher Shepheard-Walwyn, speaking on “A Principled Approach to Economics.” Among other things, he quoted Edmund Burke, “The principles that guide us in publick and in private . . . [are] not of our devising, but moulded unto the nature and essence of things [and] will endure with the Sun and the Moon.”
Mr. Werner also referenced Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind — not to attack Americans, he said courteously. Bloom’s students at Harvard didn’t believe in truth. Werner does believe in truth, and in eternal principles.
Our lunchtime speaker was Anthony Werner from the British publisher Shepheard-Walwyn, speaking on “A Principled Approach to Economics.” Among other things, he quoted Edmund Burke, “The principles that guide us in publick and in private . . . [are] not of our devising, but moulded unto the nature and essence of things [and] will endure with the Sun and the Moon.”
Mr. Werner also referenced Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind — not to attack Americans, he said courteously. Bloom’s students at Harvard didn’t believe in truth. Werner does believe in truth, and in eternal principles.
