Book it
The fact is, books are relevant only to young people. There's no point in reading anything serious when you get older, because you're not going anywhere except the grave, and you know it. That makes older people hypocrites when they start championing books, which I am about to do. Full Story
The heart of Blago
When Franklin Roosevelt was pounding on the evils of business at the height of the New Deal, the great economist John Maynard Keynes tried to pull him back: "It is a mistake to think businessmen are more immoral than politicians. Full Story
GUEST OPINION
End of the oughts, start of the teens
The beginning of 2009 is in sight, and the end of the '00s is at hand. We Americans tend to think of our popular culture in decadal terms: "The Fifties," "The Eighties" and so on, with each span conjuring up its own stew of fashions, songs and movies in the mind's eye. Full Story
MUSINGS
Middle way somewhere
This pirate's throne is in the middle. There is a mirror in front and a mirror behind. So the vision is infinite. I find myself going and coming in this middle way. There is plenty of room even in my little ordinary body life events. And even though there is little rest in this room I find it vastly superior to my friend Plato's cave. Full Story
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