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Technology at a personal level
It changed my life
Economist Robert Gordon argues that computers and the Internet have barely affected people’s lives. My own experiences suggest that the professor should get out of his ivory tower more often.
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Your investment house in peace and war
Dear investor: Everything is under control…
Stock markets are tumbling, with no apparent end in sight. But investors haven’t panicked, thanks to the reassuring messages they’ve received from their money managers. For example. . . .
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Candidates as performers
What Kasich should have said to Trump
Presidential debates make great theater, but great performers don’t necessarily make great administrators. Consider a recent exchange between the glib Donald Trump and the earnest John Kasich.
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The Inquirer‘s ‘Lenfest solution’
The education of Gerry Lenfest
The civic savior Gerry Lenfest has implemented an ingenious plan to preserve Philadelphia’s leading news organization. What could possibly go wrong? Just one or two little things. . . .
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When writers get angry
How I handled Ernest Hemingway
BSR's writers are up in arms over our arbitrary payment policies. But things were even worse when I was editor, as a glimpse at my private emails will attest.
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A ‘Messiah’ for Philadelphians
Handel without hyperbole
Just in time for Christmas: A libretto for Handel’s Messiah that self-deprecating Philadelphians can sing without embarrassment.
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The age of the antihero
Trump and Cruz: Stranger than fiction
The two most abrasive Republican presidential candidates now rank first and second in the polls. The only two grown-ups in the group are struggling in the rear. Welcome to the age of the antihero.
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Theater critics and H.L. Mencken
The past is a foreign country (thank God)
Do you remember the Golden Age of Arts Journalism? Neither do I. As H.L. Mencken’s memoir reminds us, back in the supposed good old days, most newspaper arts critics were drunk most of the time, and with good reason.
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Woodrow Wilson — scapegoat?
Wilson and Princeton: Perfect together
Princeton University’s current Woodrow Wilson controversy provides a convenient distraction from the larger issue, which is not Wilson’s racial bigotry but the exclusionary culture that until recently characterized Princeton University itself.
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An open letter to ISIS
Dear ISIS: Don’t shoot— I give up!
To ISIS I say: We Americans are just as angry as you are. So why not reach out to us? The results may surprise you!
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