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Thursday, June 11, 2026

The view of the top 20 percent income bracket: the great American twenty first century

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    An interesting variable in U.S. elections is that the top 20 % does most of the talking - the media, the politicians, the "experts...
Tuesday, June 09, 2026

sanity and poetry

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  How much madness we’ve flushed down the drain! The correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell is instructive. Bishop stood ...
Monday, June 08, 2026

Left conservatism

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1.Norman Mailer used to call himself a left conservative – a conservatism with no connection to capitalism. In Mailer’s case, he had an alle...
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Thursday, June 04, 2026

on Leo Perutz

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  One of Leo Perutz’s classmates wrote that his first memory of Perutz, an “uncommonly untidy boy” next to whom he sat on the bench at the P...
Monday, June 01, 2026

Fan fiction and the stock market

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  This is the year of the question: why is this bubble different from any other bubble? I’ve pondered this. I’ve watched the stock markets i...
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Thursday, May 28, 2026

curses

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You could not, in words, writing, or printing, legally curse Queen Elizabeth. To do so put you on the road to having one ear removed, or hal...
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Superstition, blessing, and contract: a fantasia on the horror film

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  “A miracle must be seen at a distance if one is to believe it to be true, just as a cloud must be seen at a distance if one wants to belie...
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