September 2013
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It's focused on her connection to two other people: the writer of the profile, and the little-known '60s pop musician Curt Boettcher, who holds a deep fascination for both of them: "She Told Herself She Couldn't Die Because She Had to Write His Story." It's extremely interesting, and a little surprising for the NYT in…
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Weekend Music And so I'm not posting any of his music. You can listen to it here.
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Here is a vision of how the automobile would change the world, as seen in the Illustrated World of May, 1922. It's easy to laugh at a lot of this: "There can be no slums in the future." But really, when you take away the naive gosh-it's-wonderful tone, and the irony of the predictions of…
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The fatal flaw of liberalism was always its pretense or fantasy that the state could and would remain neutral on most questions of value, especially the big ones. This illusion was only possible because there was a broad consensus on most of the most serious matters in that realm. When, almost immediately after the establishment…
Light On Dark Water 