The Slack Wire

There is no long run.  This  short note from the Fed  suggests that the failure of output to return to its earlier trend following the Great...

Here's my brother on MSNBC talking about Ferguson. He makes an important point: In the vast majority of police shootings a grand jury is...

A couple of years ago, I saw a performance of Coriolanus on the Boston Common. It was that rare experience of seeing a great Shakespeare pl...

Some things worth reading: 1.  Ozgur Orhangazi on the coming balance of payments crisis in Turkey: Since the late 1970s, “developing...

Never Come Morning is my favorite American novel, full stop. But this here is a remarkably bitchy memoir/parody. Mailer as Norman Manlif...

At the bar the other night, they had The Walking Dead on. We do seem to be in a zombie moment right now. One can't but wonder what it m...

Audubon Audubon perfected a new way of drawing birds that he called his. On the bottom of each watercolor he put "drawn from nature...

Quote of the day: "Robert and Frank were like two peas in a pod -- only they were like the peas in Mendel's genetic crosses , one s...

I've had only had one job that paid minimum wage (or minimum plus 50 cents, as I recall.) That was as a bookstore clerk at Shakespeare ...

I know nothing about visual art. So all I can do, when I find myself in a museum, is to walk briskly from room to room -- ah, Miro! ah, John...

This looks like an interesting book. She's arguing, as I understand it, that science cannot be ontologically complete, that it always c...

Alan Keyes says , "If citizenship is not a birthright then it must be a grant of the government. And if it is a grant of the governme...

Walking through Central Park a week or so ago, a perfect summer afternoon. Here are the trees, the birds, people playing frisbee, reading, w...