lunedì 21 maggio 2018

SCIROCCO SICULO

SCIROCCO SICULO
… quello sventolio flacco flacco dell’onda grigia, d’argento o di ferro, ripetuta a perdita d’occhio e invelenita dalle tormentose serpentine di spurghi e di rifiuti, simili a gigantesche murene…

"D'Arrigo combina registri linguistici per comunicare qualcosa che nessuno prima aveva pensato sulla vita." dall'introduzione di Walter Pedullà L'odissea di un giovane eroe moderno, 'Ndrja Cambrìa, marinaio della fu Regia Marina, che dopo l'8 settembre…
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TOGLIERE GLI AGGETTIVI POSSESSIVI

TOGLIERE GLI AGGETTIVI POSSESSIVI
Affermare che va tutelato il “patrimonio della Nazione” è come dire che va difesa la “memoria della Nazione”, oppure “l’identità della Nazione”. Non sarebbe meglio togliere dalla Costituzione gli aggettivi possessivi? Alessandro Manzoni ha scritto in italiano, ma non lo difende la Nazione: lo difende, lo anima, il desiderio di chi lo ama.
Per far rinascere la cultura e la ricerca in Italia occorre un cambiamento radicale che dia centralità alla persona e alle libere comunità che nascono nei territori. Nessun museo, biblioteca, archivio, festival o università deve essere preservato senza che…
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LA MALEDIZIONE DEL PESO RIGUADAGNATO

LA MALEDIZIONE DEL PESO RIGUADAGNATO
Le persone che guadagnano peso invecchiando (pancetta) riducono i rischi di morte prematura. Ingrassare non fa poi così male se lo si fa gradualmente. Il peso che ci minaccia sul serio è solo quello riguadagnato, magari dopo una drastica dieta.
A provocative exposé of America's self-defeating war on obesity challenges conventional wisdom regarding the cultural, medical, and political meaning of weight,…
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I DUE CULTI

I DUE CULTI
Il culto della magrezza vince contro il culto anti-sessista: il sacrificio della competente ma grassa sembra essere ben digerito dai guardiani del politically correct. Gli stessi protagonisti sembrano inclini ai medesimi valori: si è più orgogliosi di una conquista in termini di chili persi che in termini di competenze guadagnate.
A provocative exposé of America's self-defeating war on obesity challenges conventional wisdom regarding the cultural, medical, and political meaning of…
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UN CAPPOTTO DI ALPACA

UN CAPPOTTO DI ALPACA
Non mi serve un cappotto di alpaca, nemmeno una spilla di tormalina, nemmeno un I Pod che si possa ascoltare sotto la doccia, men che meno le candele di vaniglia, o la borsa Prada, o il sale da bagno alla lavanda. Non mi servono ma li desidero. Trattasi di bisogno indotto dalla pubblicità? Probabilmente no, la relazione con i valori estetici è qualcosa di troppo radicato nella nostra natura per spiegarla con il controllo della mente a fini commerciali.
Whether it's sleek leather pants, a shiny new Apple computer, or a designer toaster, we make important decisions as consumers every day based on our sensory…
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INTRO - HIGHLIGHT

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Bill: In a perfect world, I’d have longer arms so I could shave my back. Hank: In a perfect world, you’d have no back hair.
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A perfect state is a pointless state.
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If Rich would donate his 40% to the poor, the state wouldn’t need to tax his income. If Mimi would buy a hybrid instead of a Hummer, the state wouldn’t need to cap
Note:PERCHE' TASSARE? PERCHE' REGOLARE?

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But since virtue alone won’t do the job, the state needs to redistribute equitably and regulate efficiently.
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the very reasons why the state is needed are reasons why the state won’t work.
Note:DOVE LO STATO SERVE LO STATO NON FUNZIONA

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a state that efficiently provides public goods is itself a public good:
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Free riders won’t pay the costs of good government
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our theory cannot coherently assume a just state.
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But ideal theories of the state, like John Rawls’s, make precisely this assumption. Rawls and others stipulate fair-playing, equality-prizing citizens who work hard to make their democratic state completely just. But people who play fair and prize equality don’t need a state to force them to do the right thing—
Note:L'ASSUNTO DI RAWLS

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The shift to nonideal theory should prompt Rawls and other liberal egalitarians to rethink their rejection of a free market,
Note:RIPENSARE IL MERCATO

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I defend the claim that an ideally just society has no need for a coercive state. Coercion is needed to achieve justice only when society is less than fully just. But when society is less than fully just, we cannot stipulate the ideal justness of the state itself.
Note:LA GERUSALEMME CELESTE E BABILONIA... NON CONFONDIAMO

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ideal theorists have sidestepped this dilemma by implicitly violating what Geoffrey Brennan and James Buchanan call “behavioral symmetry”—
Note:VIOLARE L'ASSUNTO DEL COMPORTAMENTO SIMMETRICO (O PRINCIPIO DELL'EGUAGLIANZA)

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liberal egalitarians’ objections to classical liberalism miss the mark precisely because classical liberal arguments typically presuppose behavioral symmetry.
Note:I VIOLENTATORI DELL'ASSUNTO ALTROVE LO UTILIZZANO A MAN BASSA

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that purports to challenge the principle of behavioral symmetry. I conclude that the principle, properly understood, withstands these challenges. As a result, philosophers should abandon ideal theories of the state entirely.
EVIDENZA EMPIRICA

domenica 20 maggio 2018

KABUL INSEGNA

KABUL INSEGNA
Uomini in fila dal barbiere, donne con le unghie pittate, circolazione frenetica di cartoline con le star di Bollywood, burka dai colori insoliti, veli dai ricamo singolari... Da un giorno se ne sono andati i talebani e Kabul ci insegna che la libertà non è tanto una questione di elezioni, istruzione o libera stampa. Oltre alle libertà politiche, civili ed economiche ci sono quelle estetiche. La superficialità è tremendamente sottovalutata da filosofi scienziati della politica, una concezione angusta dell'estetica, poi, ci induce a prenderla in considerazione solo quando vengono minati i Bamiyan Buddhas. Ma negare la superficialità significa negare l'esperienza umana: ornamento e decorazione sono la vita reale
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L'alternativa al reddito minimo

UBI vs. guaranteed jobs vs. wage subsidies, by Scott Sumner http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2018/05/ubi_vs_guarante.html

Una difesa del matrimonio reale

Kevin Vallier:
Here’s my qualified defense of the royal wedding. Some studies find that democracies with powerless monarchs tend to have more trusting citizens than democracies without them. One theory about why this is is that democracies with monarchs have a non-partisan, largely powerless head of state that people with different political ideologies can rally around. Perhaps a royal wedding is a pretty harmless way of making this source of social unity salient and so may increase social unity without a war or stoking

sabato 19 maggio 2018

2 The Puzzle Is Real The Ubiquity of Useless Education DA FINIRE

The Puzzle Is Real The Ubiquity of Useless Education
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what students have to learn and what workers need to know
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signaling model solves a puzzle:
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we must scrutinize precisely what students learn and what employers reward.
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no matter what they study, students are learning “how to learn” or “how to think.”
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stories about blood, sweat, and tears:
Note:ULTIMA SPIAGGIA DELLA PERSONA COMUNE

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discipline”
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“builds character.”
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The Content of the Curriculum
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What’s today’s mix? 90% wheat and 10% chaff? 50/50? 20/80?
Note:LA SCUOLA INSEGNA MOLTO...QUANTO WERVE?

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ETÀ ESAMINATA

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Digest of Education Statistics
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students eventually apply their lessons on the job?
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knowledge of the subject improves job performance in a wide range of occupations;
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knowledge of the subject improves job performance in some common occupations;
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knowledge of the subject at best improves job performance in rare occupations;
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literacy and numeracy
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technical classes
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cooking, sewing, metalworking, woodworking, drafting, or computer programming.
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science
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arts
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“starving artists”
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Foreign languages,
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Physical education,
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a handful of budding professional athletes
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more academic and less practical
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schools teach and often require math rarely used
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featuring countless proofs of triangles’ congruence, is notoriously irrelevant.
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you’ll probably never differentiate another equation unless you pursue a degree in math,
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statistics, in contrast, is useful
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school is far from the skill factory we often imagine
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Engineering
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“health professions” and agriculture majors
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You don’t need a business degree to work in business,
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You don’t need a degree in public administration to be a bureaucrat,
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about 35% of majors end up in the Medium category.
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graduates in pure mathematics have no clear occupational track.
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no one pays you to prove theorems.
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Liberal arts programs uphold the ideal of “knowledge for knowledge’s sake.”
Note:FILOSOFIA DELLE ARTI LIBERALI...NEMMENO PRETENDE DI ISTRUIRE

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Historians, unsurprisingly, have the bleakest prospects of all.
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majority of students who earn these degrees find employment outside their field.
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STORIA COMUNICAZ PSIC

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How do you know Latin, trigonometry, or Emily Dickinson won’t serve you on the job?
Note:L OBIEZIONE DEGLI ANTIUTILITAR

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his French once helped him understand an airport announcement in Paris.
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These claims remind me of Hoarders,
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Taken literally, the hoarders are right: there is a chance they’ll need
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trash is almost always a bad idea.
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retreat to agnosticism. “No one knows
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Measured Learning
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education pays only because students learn.
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purists also ought to believe workers retain
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low learning/retention would be a puzzle.
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Students can win employers’ favor by learning enough to get a good grade—then
Note:X I SEGNALETICI

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randomly give some kids extra education, then measure their surplus knowledge.
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summer
DA FINIRE