Last weekend during an event at Harvard, where he was to be honored by his former students of some 50 years of teaching in the Social Studies Department, Martin Peretz, TNR editor-in-chief and creator of the Blog, The Spine, was loudly lambasted for his Blog entry of September 5. There following his widely shared and [...]
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Sharp words of Marty Peretz on his TNR Blog, The Spine
October 1, 2010Making too much of and from a “public good.”
March 27, 2010David Leonhardt, in this Sunday’s NYTimes Magazine says: “A public good is something that the free market tends not to provide on its own, to the detriment of society. Pollution laws and police departments are classic examples.” Elsewhere, in the Opinion section of the Wall Street Journal I read: “In Vallejo, CA compensation packages for [...]
Hardly untouched and unblemished
February 14, 2009Those of you who might not want to think that we are no less a part of earthly life than are rodents and roaches, mites and maggots, as well as those of you who might want to go on believing that somehow we stand apart, pure and good, God’s highest handiwork, might consider the following [...]
