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…
In 1891, future Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis represented Massachusetts liquor dealers. They were fighting draconian proposals for regulating liquor sales. Brandeis opened his presentation with this summary of his…
USA Today reports that the National Football League is worried about small declines in 2008 and 2009 in stadium attendance. Bill Prescott, the Jaguars CFO, summed up the problem as…
I trust my son Jotham’s judgments on, among other things, science fiction in print, on film or on radio. After all, he insisted I watch Battlestar Gallactica, the best…
This morning, the New York Times celebrated the huge progress made on acid rain over the past 30 years. In an editorial, the Times noted regulatory action taken since 1990…
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