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Few visit the economics department for merriment.  Economists post unfriendly signs above their doorways like, “I am a scientist: give way.”  Skeptical faculties rebuke them with, “Economists can never be truly educated.”

Despite economists’ impressive analytical doctrine, might they or any specialized PhDs, become over-educated or mal-educated?  John Henry Newman reminds us that, “You must be above your knowledge, not under it, or it will oppress you; and the more you have of it, the greater will be the load.”

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An exclusive with the newly beatified Cardinal Newman.

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Dr. Ralph McInerny, gentleman scholar, novelist, and devoted father and husband, died Friday. He was eighty years old.

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A simple principle solves our confusing health care predicament. Convert ninety percent of all committed health care expenditures into a simple annual cash payment to the needy. The poor prefer it and gain from it. Return ten percent to taxpayers. It advances liberty and the common good.

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One of history’s most accomplished economists—Paul Samuelson—died Sunday in Belmont, Massachusetts at age 94.

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Liberal education for Professor Eva T.H. Brann consists of "artfully superintended conversations . . . aided by great books." It provides Americans with an education that suits its political regime, a matching, according to Brann, that Aristotle would have recommended. Studying the classics and the American founding does "not aim at a return to the past but at its re-appropriation for the present."

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