by Niall Ferguson
Home-owning Democracy
“An Englishman’s home is his castle, or so the saying goes. Americans, too, know that (as Dorothy says in The Wizard of Oz) there’s no place like home – even if the homes do all look rather similar. But the origins of the Anglo-American model of the highly geared home-owning family lie [...]
No Time for Poetry
By FRANK RICH
NYT, January 24, 2009
PRESIDENT Obama did not offer his patented poetry in his Inaugural Address. He did not add to his cache of quotations in Bartlett’s. He did not recreate J.F.K.’s inaugural, or Lincoln’s second, or F.D.R.’s first. The great orator was mainly at his best when taking shots at [...]
From “Mirror Reflections on Time’s Dualities” by By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: December 31, 2008
“It’s always best to start at the beginning,” Glinda the good witch tells Dorothy as she waves her wand at the Yellow Brick Road, which of course really starts back in Kansas with three farmhands, a witchy neighbor and a song about somewhere [...]