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Stephen Strasburg as a Balzac Parable
Those sports fans living in the Washington, D. C. area have been riveted this year by two wondrous developments. The first is wondrous only by local standards: the Washington Nationals (or Nats) are...
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Why the Wealthy Get Wealthier
Colin Firth as Darcy As growing income inequality becomes a pressing problem, one of the unexpected hits of the past year has been Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the 21st Century. Piketty believes...
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Stephen Strasburg as a Balzac Parable
Those sports fans living in the Washington, D. C. area have been riveted this year by two wondrous developments. The first is wondrous only by local standards: the Washington Nationals (or Nats) are...
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Why the Wealthy Get Wealthier
Colin Firth as Darcy As growing income inequality becomes a pressing problem, one of the unexpected hits of the past year has been Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the 21st Century. Piketty believes...
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Balzac’s Gobseck Understands Trump
In this still from Czech film “Gobseck,” a rich debtor pawns her necklace. Monday At the recommendation of my friend Mladen Dolar, I’ve been reading Balzac’s short story “Gobseck” and find myself...
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On Using Lit as a Cudgel
Goya, Fight with Cudgels Monday A conservative reader the other day accused me of relentlessly using this blog as “an anti-Trump cudgel,” which got me thinking about whether I was indeed guilty of...
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Balzac Invented the 19th Century?!
Steichen’s photo of Rodin’s Balzac Friday A New York Review of Books article by Peter Brooks article about Honoré de Balzac has persuaded me to return to the French author. (Thanks to Literary Hub for...
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Marx & Engels on the Usefulness of Lit
Marx and Engels Tuesday I share today another chapter of my current book project, Better Living through Literature: A 2500-Year-Old Debate. Since I am still in the revision process, I am particularly...
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