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Contemporary Coriolanus
Given that I spend almost no time at the movies any more, I have to confess that I was drawn to reading reviews of Coriolanus, the directorial debut of Ralph Fiennes, who also plays the leading role. Much has been made of how Shakespeare’s conception...
The Strategy of a Failed Candidate?
While my opinions of both CNN and TIME are best kept heavily muted, I continue to have a high opinion of Fareed Zakaria; and I am impressed that TIME has allowed him to pursue projects leading to articles that plumb far deeper than the usual superficiality...
Stockhausen Challenged By Description
I have been reading the University of California Press anthology of articles from Source, which I plan to review on my Examiner.com national site. In the first issue I found a transcription of a conversation in which one of the participants was Karlheinz...
Parties to the Farce?
The London Telegraph, which is, for the record, a Conservative-leaning newspaper, ran a rather interesting take on The Iron Lady this morning. It was a piece by Arts Correspondent Roya Nikkhah in which she documented the opinions of several of the...
Who Are These Guys?
Since I began the year with a post declaring my bailing on Firefox, I took some interest in yesterday’s post by Steve J. Vaughan-Nichols to his ZDNet Networking blog. It was Vaughan-Nichols who first put the bug in my ear with his data points on...
Free Market Health Care
According to an Associate Press story filed by Joseph Pisani this past Saturday, Groupon (along with other daily deals sites) is moving into health care. In other words coupon-based marketing is now flourishing, at least on the Web, in areas such...
Giving More Credit Than is Due
Simon van Zuylen-Wood has a nice piece on the Web site for The New Republic about Newt Gingrich’s “Earning by Learning” plan for education reform. This is the one that involves giving kids cash incentives for such things as reading books over...
Steve Jobs Without the Hagiography
I was wondering whether or not The New York Review of Books would select Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs for consideration and, if so, whom would be assigned the task. The answer can be found in the latest issue (January 12), in which Sue Halpern is...
