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Tom Stoppard and Pink Floyd 27 Aug 2013 | 04:48 am
I haven’t listened to this yet, but fans of Tom Stoppard, Pink Floyd, or of both [1], might be interested in listening to Stoppard’s latest play, Darkside, written in celebration of the 40th anniversa...
Jesus Christ, I’m at Yale 24 Aug 2013 | 08:12 pm
In 1978, Vivian Gornick wrote an article in The Nation on her semester-long experience as visiting professor at Yale. It’s a forgotten little classic of campus manners and mores that in many respects ...
LOVEINT 24 Aug 2013 | 09:19 am
The drip feed of revelations about spying by NSA, related agencies and international subsidiaries like GCHQ, is taking on a familiar pattern. Take some long-held suspicion about what they might be up ...
Hit or Run 23 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm
To boxercise or to jog, that is the question. After a couple of months of forced inactivity, I’m back to pursuing some sort of mid-life, peripatetic aspirational fitness programme. Not for me the tria...
Cronyism and the global city (again) 22 Aug 2013 | 10:35 am
Alex Pareene at Salon points to a bunch of evidence showing, in essence, that the rich look out for themselves and their kids, and no one else, then to a piece by Andrew Ross Sorkin defending nepotism...
Eternal Sunshine of the Conservative Mind 20 Aug 2013 | 08:56 am
“or wino encampment” ? We need voter id laws to stop … winos from voting? (Post title inspired by this classic scene.)
Because they can 19 Aug 2013 | 04:21 pm
For any ordinary organization, the detention of David Miranda by British security authorities, coming hot on the heels of a major NY Times article detailing the similar treatment routinely dished out ...
Trust Us 19 Aug 2013 | 12:50 am
The Guardian reports that David Miranda, the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, was held at Heathrow all day today under schedule 7 of the 2000 Terrorism Act. Miranda was held for the longest time...
Krugman, Keynes, Kalecki, Konczal 18 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
Paul Krugman’s recent columns, responding in various ways to JM Keynes, Michal Kalecki and Mike Konczal have made interesting reading, signalling a marked shift to the left both on economic theory and...
“He may not, as unvalued persons do/ Carve for himself; for on his choice depends …” 18 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
If you are only going to read one book on Hamlet this week … well, I guess it could be Stay, Illusion, by Critchley and Webster. (If you’d like to read about it, go here.) But it could also be To Be O...
