GeneralHigh Art and High Finance in the TankSomewhere Robert Hughes is smiling. Hot on the heels of my column in last week’s issue of the magazine, a major Picasso work that...
GeneralScarlett ClonehannsonI get spam: ******* Subject : WARNING ! STOLEN BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL ! Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2007! regarding Scarlett...
GeneralPriming Democracy (II)Grist for the mill, from the WashPost (via Spector) The whole piece is very good, and is more support for the view that voting...
GeneralHell and High WaterPretty much everything you need to know about everything is contained in this one short passage from Paul Martin’s new book: “In...
GeneralPriming DemocracyUnlike Andrew Coyne (and a bazillion others) I’m increasingly hesitant to get all fussed about declining voter turnout. In the...
GeneralPotter: Snarkiness about sharkiness misses the pointThe world’s Damien Hirsts offer a service, luring squillionaire cash away from ‘real’ art
GeneralIn (sort of) praise of not votingIn today’s OC, Cato fellow Will Wilkinson has one of the better short summaries you’ll find on why low voter turnout isn’t...
GeneralIn Harlem, Whatever it TakesThe Harlem Children’s Zone is a network of programs designed to address a slew of neighbourhood problems including bad living...
GeneralLondon vs New YorkAmerica is a country divided by race, Britain by class. Or, as Don Thompson writes in The $12 Million Stuffed Shark about how...