My Commonplace Blog

As Electric Warrior and Ziggy Stardust, Bolan and Bowie were far more effective Pied Pipers than Donovan, transporting their young listener...

The global village, in its original context in McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy , was not an example of gleeful futurology. It was a warn...

Argalia had never before faced a Medici duke in his pomp. However, when Giuliano de' Medici rode into his encampment that night, with a...

Hamida Bado, a fierce, commanding woman, was not attracted to the concept of doubt. It was her opinion that she knew what was what, had bee...

There is fairly unambiguous evidence, instead, that insiders make above average returns. One disturbing example is that members of Congress...

On the other hand there was culture. New Orleans does many things well, but there are two things it proudly refuses to do. New Orleans does...

The importance of the industrial revolution is hard to overstate. Throughout essentially all of human history, economic growth had proceeded...