All Posts Tagged With: "Albert Schweitzer"
The Commons: Tragedy or Triumph?
In the summer I watch ruby-throated hummingbirds fly and hover near a feeder that my wife, Dot, carefully fills with nectar and hangs in view of our kitchen window. The store-bought nectar is colored red, since people think that hummingbirds find that color attractive. Business around the feeder picks up following rains that wash away [...]
1Apr1999 | Bruce Yandle | 9 comments | ContinuedLeonard E. Read: A Portrait
The Reverend Mr. Opitz, a contributing editor of The Freeman, was a senior staff member of the Foundation for Economic Education until his retirement in 1992. He was book review editor of The Freeman for many years. Leonard started out as a farm boy in the small town of Hubbardston, Michigan. There are always chores [...]
1Sep1998 | Edmund A. Opitz | 4 comments | Continued-
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