Last evening, my iPod shuffled a couple of Eric Bogle cuts into the mix. A Scot who has lived for more than 40 years in Australia, he is best known…
Today is Remembrance Day in Canada and the UK. It is Veteran’s Day in the US. I like the concept of Remembrance Day. There should be a time expressly set…
‘Bird, Meet Cousin Alligator’. So reads the headline on a fascinating Nov. 4 Harvard Gazette story on Assistant Professor Arkhat Abzhanov. A professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, Abzanhov is…
I have been musing on Adam Smith, the moral philosopher, for the past few days. As I said yesterday, I find it increasingly difficult to believe ‘an invisible hand’ alludes…
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…
According to Roman myths, a prophecy that one of his sons would overthrow him inspired Saturn to eat each of his sons at their births – except Zeus whose mother…
As someone identified with indexes his firms created, I’ve never thought it politic to tout someone else’s creation. But, I’ve found one that merits attention. Lara Crigger of the Journal…
Note to self and readers: Remind me when I go off the rails to reread Justin Fox’s fine blog post on The New Republic’s Martin Peretz. After assessing his 36…
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