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friedrich hayek

Opium of the Elite

Jonathan Rée reviews Bruce Caldwell’s and Hansjoerg Klausinger’s Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950. In case there’s a pay gate, here is a pdf. At the page footer Jonathan Rée discuss this piece with Thomas Jones on the LRB Podcast. Austrian Theorybruce caldwellclassical liberalismFriedrich HayekJonathan Rée

satire

Barry Humphries 

The Guardian/BBC/The Telegraph. I had heard through a friend of Barry’s that Barry wasn’t doing well. I’d been in correspondence with this friend who alerted me to Barry’s appreciation of Frederick Rolfe’s Hadrian the Seventh, an edited volume that I’m currently working on. Barry was to have provided some blurb for the book.  barry humphriescomedydudley…

david bowie

Aladdin Sane @ 50

See The Guardian. Plus photographer Chris Duffy’s book Aladdin Sane 50. ‘Camille Paglia, a US feminist academic, described the picture as “one of the most emblematic and influential art images of the past half-century, reproduced or parodied in advertising, media and entertainment worldwide”’. Ken Scott the producer will be in conversation with Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy at Classic…

Led Zeppelin

Houses of the Holy @ 50

Released on this date in 1973. An insightful assessment by someone who hadn’t been born yet. And by someone who was. Abigail Devoehouses of the holyjimmy pagejohn bonhamjohn paul jonesLed ZeppelinMichael NolandRobert Plant

Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo

Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo

Only today did I learn of the passing of a colleague and friend, Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo. I’d met Gloria at an Atlas conference back in 2008 in Portsmouth. Dave Hardwick and I were most taken with the quality of her mind and equally by her conviviality and by her no-nonsense stance towards some of…