Humanities and the Pleasure Principle

Sometimes I feel like a hedonist. No doubt my wife — cosigner of our mortgage, mother to my two young children, and the woman who gave me my most prized possession (a push mower) — is curious to know when these times are. Well, they happen when talking...

Imperium Watch, September 6, 2007

God, it hurt to find out that CNBC’s Erin Burnett has a degree in political economy from Williams College. It hurt because not long ago Burnett showed such abysmal naivete about the economy—about the evolution of American manufacturing in relation to...