The October 5-6 PRI (Principles for Responsible Investment) annual conference in San Francisco promises to be a grand celebration. It should be. No one would have predicted the PRI’s enormous successes…
Yesterday’s post on Fordham professor Steven Stoll’s essay, ‘Agrarian Anxieties’, got me thinking about another Bible story of conquest and enslavement: the Babylonian captivity. In the 6th century BCE, the…
Among my many claims to fame: I am the only Pittsburgh Pirate fan sentient during the 1960 World Series who will admit he did not see Bill Mazeroski’s bottom of…
In the pleasant surprise category: iTunes10. What an improvement!! I like music mixes, and a three-hour drive to Vermont or a seven-hour train ride to Washington now sails by. Whether…
How can Ayn Rand continue to capture American imaginations? This question has troubled Gary Moore for a generation. His new article, ‘Ayn Rand: Goddess of the Great Recession’ appears in…
What was the Bush II Administration’s strategy for the Middle East? Why was Iraq central to it? It is beginning to appear, at least to me, that their fascination with Winston…
A thought for Labor Day from Louis Brandeis (1930): For every employee who is steady in his work, there shall be steady work. The right to regularity in employment is…