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Europe Syndrome in America?

April 3, 2009

Last month Charles Murray gave a speech to the American Enterprise Institute titled:
        “Europe Syndrome

It’s a good speech, and I would have liked to hear him deliver it in person.

Many of you might remember Randy Pausch – the Carnegie Mellon professor who developed terminal cancer. He gave his last speech “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” to a packed hall filled with students and friends, and before dying he expanded it into a best-selling book “The Last Lecture.

Charles Murray’s speech was equally compelling to me, but discusses the “meaning of life” concept from a different perspective. (more…)