From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Charlie Rose – A conversation with Indian author V.S. Naipaul

25 March 2009

Charlie Rose – A conversation with Indian author V.S. Naipaul Found this interesting. The man is Trinidadian, not Indian! The sound’s low, so you’ll have to pay attention. I’d be interested in people’s comments.

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Not exactly an apology: on ideology, debate, and patriots

22 March 2009

Over the weekend, Rick Lowe and I had an email exchange that didn’t end as well as our private exchanges usually do. I won’t go into details, but it boiled down to the question of whether I dismissed him in the discussion following the last post or not. He certainly felt dismissed. Not what I [...]

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On the Recession, the Humanities, and the 21st Century

1 March 2009

But I’m going to make a prediction now. It’s not an awfully fun one, either. The Bahamian economy is very likely to crash, and hard. And soon. Why? Well, it has occurred to me (why I was so silly I don’t know) that our extended period of prosperity has lasted pretty well as long as the Cuban Revolution has lasted — the revolution and the attendant embargo. Quite simply, because Americans couldn’t go to Cuba, they came here.

That time is conceivably going to end in the foreseeable future. If you were paying attention to Obama’s state of the union address, you might be like me, and seeing it coming sooner or later.

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