From the monthly archives:
July 2009
Culture
More and more, “production” — that word my fellow economists have worked over for generations — has become interior to the human mind rather than
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Culture
[H]e approaches the classics without the apocalyptic vision of a culture warrior or the sort of popularizing sentiment that glibly reduces Aristotle to a self-help
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Culture
In her view, we have domesticated love past all recognition, turning what is rightly leonine, destructive, and majestic into a yawning, chubby house cat. Hers
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Linkblog
It seemed heretical to think of Karl Marx. But looking at the roomful of computers running automated trading models that themselves scan custom-formatted machine-readable financial
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Culture
Nehring interrogates our steadfast insistence on balanced, healthy relationships, our readiness to condemn doomed, impossible entanglements. She argues that it may in fact be a
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Culture
“So the paradox is that the Web has invigorated criticism as an activity while undermining it as a profession,” Mr. Scott said.
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Culture
They can be eccentric, slow afoot, even grouchy. But dogs live out their final days, says The Washington Post’s Gene Weingarten, with a humility and
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