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Hot off the Press: The Most Valuable Franchise Names
Please note that past performance does not guarantee future returns; consult your financial adviser before making a significant moves; consider an index fund, as Buffett recoimmends; do not make drastic decisions under the influence…
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Micadanses: Try some of this Surprise. Tastes like Imagination
Toward a more perfect education: Carole Bordes, “Danser Mattox”, a dancing talk, Bien Fait! 2021, at Regard du Cygne Before the lock downs of the past year and more, I liked participating in Micadanses-inspired…
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In Memory of John Hollander (1929-2013) [by David Lehman]
Today (10/28) is John Hollander's birthday, a fit occasion to re-post this notice from 2013: John Hollander died two months shy of his 84th birthday. He had been in poor health. We join the…
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On Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) [by Jamie Katz]
Nine years ago, on October 26, 2012, we received a few comments in response to David's post about Jacques Barzun, the great Columbia professor, who once graced the cover of Time magazine. Jacques died on…
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“International Experts” by Pamela Brown [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
With the recent announcement to open Australia's international borders next month (or as the Prime Minister Scott Morrison calls it on his official website, "taking steps to reopen to the world", which sounds more…
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Kierkegaard on systems
<< In relation to their systems most systematizers are like a man who builds an enormous castle and lives in a shack close by.>> Elsewhere Kierkegaard says that people correspond to parts of speech.…
