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Archive for the ‘Woolgathering’ Category
October 15th, 2009
August 2nd, 2009
My colleague Michael Pollan begins a reflection on not cooking from the appearance this week of a new movie about Julia Child and his recollection that her book and TV show gave his mother the courage to try real cooking. Pollan’s point, not surprisingly, is that we should cook more. Of that, more [...]
July 19th, 2009
Marx’s slogan “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his need!”, ironical or not, describes the contradiction of welfare economics not a scheme of economic organization, and should be dropped as the definition of communism.
February 20th, 2009
The rich choice of better titles than “czar”.
February 15th, 2009
Category: Sports, Woolgathering
Torvill and Dean’s great Bol�ro skating performance.
February 1st, 2009
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy, Woolgathering
Durer was not so ignorant on rhinos as one eminent art historian thinks.
January 3rd, 2009
A footnote to Mark Kleiman and Michael O’Hare on deaccessioning.
December 9th, 2008
The Bronze Horseman and the Summum case.
November 28th, 2008
Category: Woolgathering
Looking for a job for the first time in years, I’m being introduced to the wonders of online application forms, some of which appear to have been designed by applications programmers with no comprehension of what non-programming jobs entail. But a few drop-down menus contain hidden delights.
At one consulting firm, the options for “Salutation” [...]
