Just beneath the surface of socially responsible investing lies an intense, unresolvable debate about wealth: its nature, its purposes, its duties. Peter Brown’s wonderful and wondrous Through…
Few books read once in adolescence made as permanent an impression on me as Frank Norris’s novel, The Octopus: A Story of California (1901). Wheat farmers squeezed into…
The resurgence of piracy marks the periodic declines of civilisation, or of empire when the two words aren’t synonyms. Even Moamar Khadafy[1], when he’d achieved the status…
When I take visitors to Cambridge around Harvard Yard, I pause outside Memorial Church, point to the imposing building opposite it and ask if they know what they’re…
If you have the slightest interest in classical music, you must buy Arturo Toscanini: The Complete RCA Collection. Sony has reissued this 84 CD and one DVD box…
Monday night, the Bahamas National Youth Choir offered its annual Christmas concert in Nassau’s Trinity Methodist Church. It was an assured performance by a well-trained ensemble, lifting…
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