Naimisha Forest
Can we predict the future course of history?
I posted recently (No “right sides” to history) on a type of globalist thinking that sees a borderless world as the inevitable endpoint of history. That moved me to dig up my old paperback copy of “The Poverty of Historicism”, Karl Popper’s classic polemic, published in 1957, against social theories that claim to . . .
Bull Market Bull
Anatole Kaletsky has a thoughtful and persuasive piece (paywall) in Barron’s magazine on why global stock markets have a good deal more room to rise: ‘Four Reasons Why the Bull Market Has Far to Go’.
First, the world economy is finally swimming into a fabled ‘sweet spot’, with simultaneous, reasonably . . .
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The Cloud Messenger
The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Mumbai is hosting a ‘Festival of Premiering Plays’, one of which, ‘I, Cloud’, by the Story Circus theatre company, I like especially for the inspiration it takes in Kalidasa, the supreme figure in classical Sanskrit literature.
The setting for . . .
love of country
" The love of our own country seems not to be derived from the love of mankind. The former sentiment is altogether independent of the latter, and seems sometimes even to dispose us to act inconsistently with it. France may contain, perhaps, near three times the number of inhabitants which Great Britain contains. In the great society of . . .
Bitcoin?
This past summer I noticed a thrilling, new object animating conversation at every meeting of family and friends. Bitcoin! From the academical outskirts of Durham, to the foothills of the Blue Ridge, to prosperous professional suburbs in New Jersey, people engaged you in talk with this distant but intense look in their eyes: do you have . . .
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Cattleman's Bar
You can get Storz beer on draught at the Cattleman's Bar in the stockyard district of Omaha, Nebraska. Also steak, chops and fish, tobacco and cigarettes, Cobb's Creek whiskey, wine and real 7up.
There are rooms to let next door, upstairs.
Shorpy Historical Picture Archive: Cattleman's Bar 1938.
November 1938. "Saloon in . . .
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