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...Smith did not have it wrong. It's just that some of his self-proclaimed disciples have given us a terribly incomplete picture of what he believed. The man himself used the phrase invisible hand only three times: once in the famous passage from The Wealth of Nations that everybody cites; once in his other big book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments; and once in a posthumously published history of astronomy (in which he was talking about "the invisible hand of Jupiter" - the god, not the planet). For Smith, the invisible hand was but one of an array of interesting...
Faust and her husband, history of science professor Charles E. Rosenberg, visited a rare bookstore in Tokyo, where the two self-professed book lovers spent an hour and a half perusing the store’s eighth-century manuscripts, according to Gordon...
...Ariadne” lends itself easily to multiple layers of self-reference and interpretation. It consists of a Prologue and an Opera, the first framing the second. In the Prologue, a prodigiously young Composer (mezzo-soprano Edyta Kulczak) is about to see his first opera, the very serious “Ariadne auf Naxos,” performed at the court of a Viennese nobleman. However, at the nobleman’s behest, the order is given for the new opera to be combined with a troop of harlequins also slated to perform that evening. The second act, the Opera...
While these elements of “Terribly Happy” are effective, however, the shallow characters make the movie less than memorable. Robert, the protagonist, never once demonstrates self-reflection or divulges the motivations for his actions. It seems logical that as he increasingly reveals himself to be the opposite of the innocent cop he appears to be, he would simultaneously reveal the hidden personality traits which lead him to commit the atrocities he perpetrates during the film. But Robert completely maintains his superficial, ingenuous demeanor throughout the movie. This disconnect between his behavior and his bearing seems...
...George Washington Bridge to New Jersey and go north on the Palisades Parkway to Rockefeller Lookout in Englewood Cliffs.” The cacophony of place names does nothing to move the essay along, and it might be argued that such attention to detail crosses the line into self-indulgence. However, this trademark specificity is what gives these pieces their grounding...