Believe it… =========== By ERIC GIBSON On Wednesday last week, New York’s Museum of Modern Art unveiled its most recent gift, and one of the most significant in its history: Robert Rauschenberg’s “Canyon” (1959). Rauschenberg was among the leading American artists of the post-World War II era, and “Canyon” is a “combine,” a kind of large-scale, three-dimensional collage that includes photographs, pieces of... Read more
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Never Blame a Woman
November 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Politically correct, The LeftDon’t hold your breath… ============== By JAMES TARANTO President Obama’s faux-chivalrous defense of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice got some backup Friday, when “a dozen female members of the House,” all Democrats and “the majority of them African American like Rice,” held a Capitol Hill press conference. They asserted, in the words of an Associated Press report, that “Republican senators’ angry criticism . .... Read more
Noonan: The I’s Have It
November 20 | Posted by mrossol | American ThoughtThe “Facebook Generation” as I call it. Never have liked it. ======= We are becoming a conceited nitwit society, pushy and self-aggrandizing. No one is ashamed to brag now. And show off. They think it heightens them. They think it’s good for business. It used to be that if you were big, you’d never tell people how big you were because that would... Read more
How Free Speech Died on Campus
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correctAs go the universities, so goes the culture… ============= By SOHRAB AHMARI New York At Yale University, you can be prevented from putting an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote on your T-shirt. At Tufts, you can be censured for quoting certain passages from the Quran. Welcome to the most authoritarian institution in America: the modern university—”a bizarre, parallel dimension,” as Greg Lukianoff, president of the... Read more
Learning to Love Volatility
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, EconomicsThis is a ‘must read’. Some very good concepts about Govt/Capitalism. Please take the time.. ======== Several years before the financial crisis descended on us, I put forward the concept of “black swans”: large events that are both unexpected and highly consequential. We never see black swans coming, but when they do arrive, they profoundly shape our world: Think of World War... Read more
