Ray Bradbury is 90 this Sunday. I wish him many happy returns. I would also like to thank him for north of 53 years of enjoyment and enlightenment. …
http://www.marcgunther.com/2010/08/15/social-funds-bp-the-1960s-and-greed/ This may be the single most intelligent article ever on socially responsible investing.
One of the pleasures of reestablishing my habit of reading The New York Review of Books was discovering Tony Judt. A prolific, gifted writer, Judt’s commentary appeared, it seemed, in…
Cynthia Dickstein used to write op-ed pieces for the Boston Globe. I admired her clean style, her ability to describe people and feelings in very small spaces. Yesterday, the Globe…
‘They don’t make movies like they used to.’ That cliche usually tips a screed on unintelligent, adolescent, scatological flicks in contrast to the Golden Age’s smart, adult, clean cinema. Leaving…
Politico reports this morning: “The Senate, following suit with the House, has passed a $600 million bill to increase security along the U.S.-Mexico border. The bill will add more than…
I am devoted to the fractured prose — if not the felonious intent — of ‘Nigerian prisoner letters’. Now that I’ve become a blogger, I have a new source of…
One urban myth I’d like to strangle with the alligators in the sewers is that of Apple products’ intuitiveness. Some subscriber to this myth might establish my faith in this…
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