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Renegade — Henry Miller and the Making of ‘Tropic of Cancer.’   Why do men revel in the degradation of women? Jeannette Winterson’s review of Frederick Turner’s book on Henry Miller ends with a question that is seldom discussed in the bounds of polite society.  Why do men revel in the degradation of women?  I can [...]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/opinion/brooks-the-wealth-issue.html?ref=opinion When I was a scholarship student in prep school I remember seeing a lower form student emerge from his parent’s top line Benz wearing a luxurious fur coat that would probably fit him for a season or two. I wasn’t jealous or envious of him, but I did despise him because he had such [...]

Opportunity Is More Important Than Economic Mobility – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com. As a dogmatist for the Heritage Foundation, your solutions sound like talking points from the G.O.P. that your institution probably wrote. What is this “double taxation of savings” for instance? The only tax on savings is that on dividends and earned interest [...]

The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value – Forbes. As one who has followed the stock market for nearly twenty years, I’ve been unimpressed with the dogma of maximizing shareholder value. With returns as poor as they have been in virtually every sector for years, it seems to me that few shareholders have [...]