Publisher’s Note: The Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut observed a ‘day of awareness’ of the Anglican Church’s complicity in and profit from the African slave trade. This homily by my friend…
“I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” That…
Los Angeles: Getty Center Porch at Tea Time 11/2009 Fifteen years ago, few with power in Massachusetts exercised it with more relish and publicity than then Boston University president, John…
Former Walloomsac Inn, Bennington, Vt. 4/2011 They say we should beware of people who buy ink by the barrel, usually meaning journalists and media barons. But there are other owner-operators…
It is almost inconceivable that merchants would sell guns to their country’s enemies which were then turned on its forces with great effect. But it is an old story –…
The Oct. 18 New Yorker has an excellent essay on Adam Smith by Adam Gopnik (behind subscription wall.) Nominally, it is a favorable review of Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life…