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Nota bene: This post is my next installment of my multi-part review of Adam Smith’s 1784 pamphlet Additions and Corrections to the First and Second Editions of Dr. Adam Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations....
In the morning coolness, a groundhog lies on its belly on a flat rock beside the porch, where the soapwort is in bloom. Up in the woods, the thrush sings a few bars and falls silent.
Wow! Doesn’t time fly when you’re hypothetically living off the notional income from a model portfolio? This article can be read by selected Monevator members. Please see our membership plans and consider joining! Already a member? Sign...
Francesca Gino’s lawsuit against Harvard is still ongoing. (The trial, if it gets to that, is scheduled for December 2026) While the case drags on, both sides keep filing documents with the court, and most of those documents are publicly...
Our last pre-revolution building, for the last day before July 4, 2026, is one that just made it before the construction cut-off date of July 4, 1776: 273 Water Street was constructed in 1773. This is a house, built for Joseph Rose, used...
Mubi is the best described member of a small "Mubic" subgroup consisting of Masmedje, Kajakse, and Zerenkel. The other members are much more poorly described, but enough can be gleaned from published materials to show that they share...
No one asked for this but hey — good things must be shared! On our recent trip to Switzerland, my wife and I made it a point to try the local produce, as “Made in Switzerland” seemed to be a point of pride. We had heard that Switzerland...
After I light up, mothically speaking, I usually have a scout about the garden for moths that are activating as it gets dark but not necessarily heading for the trap. I almost stepped on a Pipistrelle bat swooping low to grab one of the...
“Women the world can lean on” First seen in 2019, Emma Rice’s adaptation of Malory Towers is back on the road this year as part of her selection of revivals hitting theatres across the country. The stage version of Enid Blyton’s beloved...
A very fine month indeed, in all sorts of ways. There was a cinema visit, a birthday party, many meals with friends, and a growing sense of contentment with the life I am privileged to enjoy Highlights of the month: Guerilla gardening,...
Finished reading Daimonic Reality by Patrick Harpur. Highly recommended, if you couldn’t tell by all my quotations from it. The great gift of strange books like this is a fresh pair of eyes. There’s always something invigorating in a...
An electric meter at the Prada Marfa art installation by artists Elmgreen & Dragset near Marfa, Texas. The post Today’s Mood: Half Dead, Defective & Rejected appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
SOLDIERING AND SACRIFICE . This is one of the RSC’s big hitters: five stars everywhere ,and promoted more as comedy than the romantic-chivalric classic it is, Rostand’s 19c tragic epic in hexamers, set in Franco-Spanish wars of the 17c....