Nat Hentoff has a solid piece here on the Afro-Semitic Experience, a group that draws on black and Jewish musical traditions, playing jazz, klezmer, gospel and Afro-Cuban music. Hentoff recounts...
Be assured, my young friend, that there is a great deal of ruin in a nation. – Adam Smith
Although written a few weeks ago, this USA Today article just came to my attention in a National Governors Association newsletter. Hooray for movie locations outside Hollywood According to the...
Our generation is probably the worst since the Protestant Reformation. It’s barbaric. But a barbarism even worse than the old-fashioned, straight-forward kind. Now barbarism is cloaked with all sorts of...
In many ways, the McCain campaign has been on the ropes since last summer. He’s thrown a number of Hail Mary passes since then (backing the surge, Sarah Palin, “suspending”...
Robert McDonald of the Kellogg School at Northwestern (full disclosure: I once worked there) has an interesting take on the bailout: The problem with commenting on the financial rescue plan...
