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The Whitney is presenting a fairly large show of work by Sherry Levine, a retrospective, reviewed in today's Wall Street Journal. Ms. Levine's work is found in many museums and sells for very large sums. She has become quite wealthy...
Today is the anniversary of the bird of Flann O'Brien a rather funny and unhappy man. In fact, one of the great modernist writers. For an appreciation, this post is a start.
If this sign is reliable, the clams in Washington are like the mythically armed bear.
Suskind's book on policy disputes within the Obama administration has garnered mixed, but overall positive reviews. Economics of Contempt suggests the book has been given something of a pass, perhaps by reviewers who do not understand the topic. The excerpts...
I started Volume I of the Paris Review Interviews over the weekend. I read the first four, Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, and Truman Capote. Each had an interesting way of talking, distinctive. A little surprise because interviews by...
Rawls' lectures must have been quite interesting and fun to attend. I found the book interesting reading. (I liked WIggins' Twelve Lectures more.) I wish it had changed more of my views, or any. I suppose I have not read...
It appears to me that the Manhattan DA has some problem prosecuting sex crimes. Earlier in the year they lost the prosecution of the policemen who used a woman too drunk to walk (but able to consent?). Now, we get...
I am most of the way through the section on Kant in Rawls' Lectures. I have at last found a portion I agree with -- the practical necessity of belief in freedom. Of course, that is not really what Kant...
A case handed down by the Utah Court of Appeals today illustrates the oddity of Utah la won summary judgment. It is interesting that the Court gets the relevant standards wrong, although it is quite understandable because the Utah law...
For Kant, morally good action conforms to the good will, and is done, on balance, out of regard for duty, i.e., whatever other motivations may exist, the agent finds the motive of duty sufficient for action (and, I presume, sufficient...
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