Paris’s “Cathedrals of Commerce”
Today’s New York Times has a delightful essay on the mid-nineteenth century arcades of Paris, “Making a Pilgrimage to Cathedrals of Commerce.”
Personal Musings
Paris’s “Cathedrals of Commerce”
Today’s New York Times has a delightful essay on the mid-nineteenth century arcades of Paris, “Making a Pilgrimage to Cathedrals of Commerce.”
Some More African Pictures
I took these photos with Fred Young, a Cato Institute Board Member and all-round Friend o’ Freedom, after the end of the Mont Pelerin Society meeting in Nairobi The first…
Furðulegu!
Icelandic in one week! Yikes! Hat tip: Nathalie Vogel, who — sadly, poor thing — took more than one week to learn Icelandic.
Freedom and Enlightenment
C’est vrai! Consider this interesting story about a young person who left the closed life of an ultra-orthodox community for a secular life, “Young Jews walk out on religious life.”…
Only 5 Years? How About Extra Helpings of Soup?
Man poison’s soup for his children, hoping to sue soup company.
Write, write, write….
I’m going to be burning the midnight oil, so to speak, on several delayed writing projects. The most challenging is a paper on “Myths of Markets” that I am scheduled…
More Evidence that the World Is a Very Weird Place
CNN: “Stiffler and Robert James Snow, 43, ‘were very upset when the detectives told them they had been having a sexual relationship with a 29-year-old man and not a pre-teen…
What We Take for Granted….
I’ve had a bad string lately. After the nasty (and still lingering) virus, I woke up yesterday with one of those sore throats that threatens to squeeze tears from the…