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(The painter) makes it his business to extract from fashion whatever element it may contain of poetry within history, to distill the eternal from the transitory." "By ‘modernity’ I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the...
I could pull pretty much any random passage from a Boyle video and strike gold, but this one in particular caught my attention.The first story was told by the Leave campaign, who drove a large red bus around the UK with the words, "We...
A festival. A wedding. A moment. A sudden death. Collective grieving. 3,632km driving on the left. Hiking and empty beaches, a fairy forest, a missing lake monster. Spontaneous car rental. A funeral. 40 degrees. 40 degrees again. Laying...
Welcome to this week's Link Dump, where we wish our fellow Americans a happy 250th birthday!The unveiling of the Victoria Cross.A handy reminder that Robin Hood was no hero.One really freaking long tennis match.The motivations of...
The US Supreme Court’s decision this week in Trump v. Slaughter, giving the US president the power to control supposed-to-be independent agencies set up and funded by Congress, may be as profound internationally as it is domestically. In...
Pitt peregrine ‘Red’ near the snapcam on 5 June 2026, 2:37pm (photo from the National Aviary snapcam at Univ of Pittsburgh) 3 July 2026 In early June I routinely saw only one juvenile peregrine at the Cathedral of Learning. This was...
I am grateful to have been blogging for so long, grateful for many reasons. I often go back to re-read old blog posts--by often, I mean at least two or three times a week. I go back to see what I was thinking/doing, to find recipes, to...
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...