By CHARLES SIMIC [The New York Review of Books] – I’d heard about the endless reading tours of previous laureates, the elaborate projects they had devised and administered to make poetry more popular in United States, and none of it appealed to me very much. There’s a good reason why I have lived in a […]

By ALGIS VALIUNAS [The Claremont Review of Books] – In the 1939 memoir “My Early Beliefs,” John Maynard Keynes—perhaps the past century’s most influential economist, and a writer of elegant clarity whom Saul Bellow called the foremost English prose stylist of his time—describes the impact of the Cambridge philosopher G.E. Moore’s Principia Ethica (1903) on […]

In all the reminiscing and analysis that’s emerged following Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens’ retirement announcement last Friday, the piece that’s intrigued me the most is the explanation of how Stevens came to change his views on the death penalty over the course of his tenure on the court.

The problem with the Euro-Zone has been that larger countries like Germany or France were culpable of first violating the Stability and Growth Pact

Malcolm McLaren has died in New York, aged 64.