“Economic reality confounds economic theory,” said Union Theological Seminary (Richmond) Prof. Mark Valeri to the Boston Globe. The Globe interviewed him Aug. 1st about his new book, Heavenly Merchandize: How…
Conservative economist Bruce Bartlett blogs for the Pete Peterson-funded Fiscal Times. Both he and the website are worth attending to. This is a bi-weekly compendium of articles he’s reading on…
Best known for haunting black & white images of the Great Depression by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and others, the Farm Security Administration’s photography project provided color film to…
‘October 12, 1492. A giant seabird sails into a harbor in the Bahamas. The tour director, dressed in a uniform with velvet pantaloons and puff top, steps off a skiff…
I can’t think of a better way to spend an hour on a clear summer day than flying two miles high from Boston to Rutland, Vermont. A Cape Air Cessna…
This week, The XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) demanded a global rethink of the War on Drugs. In what is to be called The Vienna Declaration, it called for …
Stanley Tretick was a photojournalist from the 1950s through 1980s. One hundred and fifty of his images are well-displayed at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester, Vermont, through September 12. …
Two days after drafting my post on Jeffrey Immelt’s observations on American industry, I read Tim Duy’s superb post on the loss of manufacturing jobs. (Thanks for leading me to…
FT.com has reported provocative remarks made in Rome last week by General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to a group of Italian executives. The whole article deserves reading, but I want…
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