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...could explain the new quotas. "U.S. imports from China," Evans said, "are five times greater than our exports." The illiteracy here is the assumption that imports are bad and that the purpose of trade between nations is to expand exports--a fallacy that was exploded, oh, sometime in the 1830s. The point of free trade is to allow economies to specialize in what they do best. Neither imports nor exports are intrinsically good or bad, though hard-pressed American consumers could be forgiven for wondering what a Commerce Secretary who wants to increase the prices of their shopping baskets...
Scheib stages Lorenzaccio from a 1993 translation by Paul Schmidt, who didn’t always take de Musset literally, but nevertheless ended up being faithful to him. Lorenzaccio was meant to be kept contemporary, whether that meant seeing the chaos of Renaissance Florence in 1830s Paris or 21st-century America. What Scheib didn’t know, right up until the show was cast, was that the scoundrel Lorenzaccio would wear braids...
...Like generations of Paris limonadiers before them, the Costes brothers made their way up from the Auvergne, a poor region some 700 km south of Paris. Since the 1830s, Auvergnats have dominated the café trade: they made their living hauling coal up apartment stairs while their wives served drinks to the clients. The drink-serving part stuck. Jean-Louis and Gilbert Costes grew up in the business; their mother Marie-Josèphe Costes turned the family farm at Saint-Amans-des-Cots into an inn, which filled up with returning Auvergnats every summer. They told tales...
...long line of teachers, stretching back to the leading pro-slavery authors of the 1800s, who believe with Alexander Pope that “whatever is, is right.” He may honestly, if mistakenly, believe that slavery was morally (as well as legally) acceptable in the 1830s; he may even believe that it is wrong to condemn a university for accepting pro-slavery dogma rather than challenging it. But maybe we can realize with Emerson that it is the duty of the scholar to rethink old institutions and old ideas—and that it is the duty...
Sevruguin, however, is not your average Orientalist. He lived in Iran his whole life (from sometime in the 1830s to 1933), and he expressed in his letters a deep love for his country. To him, Persia was hardly the exotic or inferior area that it was to the British and French. His studio photographs may just have been a concession to what was popular at the time, but it is hard to photograph a landscape through a political lens. Sevruguin's landscapes are beautiful, exotic when we look at them only because they are not fields and trees...