The paradox of modern finance is thus silhouetted: advanced economies require sophisticated financial systems, but these also threaten economic stability.
I’m not making it up, but I sound like I’m making it up which is what I want to achieve the lack of believability initially on the part of the reader wondering how this guy knows this much; does he make it up.
Then there’s the question of long stories. People just don’t read them online, goes the conventional wisdom.
Institutions are working hard to move away from what Graham W. J. Beal, director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, calls “the priestly voice of absolute authority.”
The state of Le Monde’s finances is forcing it to recapitalise. The new shareholders will own the paper.
Some of his work around the first years of the new millennium, namely Speech! Speech! (2000) and aspects of The Orchards of Syon (2002) are somewhat of a culture shock. They seem in places to identify the current belief that poetry is the most fashionable thing you can do.
Part of what people like about New Delhi’s metro is that the cars are clean and people are relatively courteous. Some riders are so pleased, in fact, that they volunteer their time to ensure it stays that way.
We need to make a long-term commitment, not look for short-term successes that jeopardize longer-term gains.
Either Christianity is transcendentally true or it is culturally true as the moral and historical basis of this nation. Either way, prayers are valid.
Marilynne Robinson’s most impressive early achievement was to write a controversial work of non-fiction about nuclear pollution in Britain which had the singular distinction of upsetting both the British government and Greenpeace at the same time.
Watson is inclined to dismiss the incidents as a consequence of advanced lumbago but Holmes is intrigued.
The longstanding tension between religion and science continues to erupt in high-profile public debates. Is reconciliation possible—or desirable?
Yet decisions about how we live are what we mean by “freedom,” and freedom is incompatible with a moralizing state. That is why I am provoked to ask the question: can the moral life survive democracy?
By DAVID RIEFF [The National Interest] – A number of European and North American intellectuals—some self-identified neoconservatives, others “reformed” leftists who would of late call themselves antitotalitarians—have found in The Treason of the Intellectuals a template for explaining what they view as the incapacity of their contemporaries to stand up for the Enlightenment values currently [...]
Juliet du Boulay: To recognize the enduring quality of much that I describe is not, however, to ignore the fact that change has always been a part of village life, and indeed so many changes have happened since I was in Ambeli in the 1960s and 1970s that much of the way of life recounted here can no longer be found. Earlier changes begin with the village itself, which had been built around 1800 by families who escaped there from a lower village which had been devastated by the Turks. Before this some of the big families were said to have come in a boat from the north, perhaps Pelion. These upheavals, however, dramatic though they were, did not necessitate a deep change of values but simply a reinterpretation of ancient themes in the new situation.
Alan Wall: The Janus Face of Metaphor. | Clues and Labyrinths. | Ruin, the collector and sad mortality.
