Atanu Dey: ” I have a singular fascination for ancient Indian temples. I’ve been to dozens of them. Thanks to the generosity and kindness of my friend K, I got to visit three amazing temples in Tamil Nadu on a 4-day road trip last month that I had never been to before. They were amazing, astonishing, magnificent, beautiful and awe-inspiring…The Great Living Chola temples are some of the most important structures created by humans. They have spiritual, philosophical, religious, architectural and historical significance. Visiting them is an uplifting experience that is hard for me to describe.”
Donald Boudreaux in a 2012 Milton Friedman centennial appreciation: “In a free society government is kept as small and as constrained as possible, charged with doing only those few tasks that are widely believed to be doable only by government — tasks such as building roads and supplying national defense. All other tasks are left to the creative forces of the free market. And in doing those few tasks, Friedman maintained, the freedom and dignity of every individual must always be respected.”
Tyler Cowen on reading: “The very best books, as you are older and know more, they become very different for the most part.I think they become much better. But even then, you should read them twice in a row when you’re reading them. I think that’s important. It’s very hard to just read them and absorb it all. And, I don’t think you should finish it and then start again. You should read a chapter, then reread that chapter, and reread as you’re going along. But those are in my view the books with the most wisdom, the ones that are most important to read, to study, to talk about with other people.”
