Today is the 99th Bloomsday. I bought Ulysses for myself on my 16th birthday, picking up the now much-despised Penguin ‘Corrected Text’ edition, edited by Hans Walter Gabler. (It’s still the only copy I have.) I bounced off of it two or three times before finally getting past Stephen’s monologue in Chapter […]
Contrasting images of the social order from a Saki short story called “The Saint and the Goblin”. The Saint and the Goblin are little statues living in a small church somewhere.
The Saint was a philanthropist in an old-fashioned way; he thought the world, as he saw it, was good, but might be improved. In particular […]
It’s worth reading Josh Marshall’s assessment of “Washington’s newfound appreciation of the ‘subtleties’ of truth-telling” with regard to Iraq’s apparent non-arsenal of non-weapons of non-mass destruction.
Along the way, he quotes Bill Keller who says “What the Bush administration did was gild the lily”. The phrase is corrupted from from Shakespeare (can’t remember what play), where […]
Michael Kinsley has a piece that mentions Richard Nixon’s policy of price controls in the early seventies. Eugene Volokh says
Of course, the notion of economic liberty—the right not to have the government dictate your wages and prices, the right to enter and run your business on your own terms, the right to hire, be hired, […]
The philosopher Bernard Williams has died. I’ll leave it to others better qualified than me to explain his contributions to ethics and other fields, though I did write about one of his more well-known ideas a few months ago.
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