H/T to Sanford Ikeda (click image for podcast). Sandy (with Gene Callahan) has written on this topic for C+T (issue 1:3): “Jane Jacobs’ Critique of Rationalism in Urban Planning”. Austrian Economicscitiescosmos & taxisEconomicseconomics detectiveemergent orderGene CallahanJane JacobsPierre DesrochersrationalismSanford IkedaSpontaneous order
NYT obituary Last interview Website: if you are in The Quarter check out the retrospective. While there someone walked in and said how “cute” Blue Dog (Tiffany) was. Cringe!!! It was great to see GR’s pre-Blue Dog work. blue dogGeorge RodrigueLouis ArmstrongTiffanyWalker Percywendy rodrigue
Check out the amazingly talented and sweet Doreen & Co.: she often can be found in The Quarter performing on Royal Street next to Rouses not far from St. Louis Cathedral. See a ton of stuff on YouTube. clarinetDoreen KetchensDoreen’s Jazz New OrleansJazzmusicnew orleans
“I doubt whether any hack, under pressure, could pen such atrocious melodrama,” Ignatius observed. “Now stop all of this, you two degenerates. Exercise at least a little taste and decency.” If I were a suburban developer, I would attach at least one set to the walls of every new yellow brick ranch style and Cape…
This in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Is there a novelist today of whom we can we say, as someone said of Dostoevsky, he “felt thought”? To read Dostoevsky, as Michael Dirda pointed out, is to encounter “souls chafed and lacerated by theories.” Yes, Walker Percy Recent arguments about God or creationism are old hat, despite…
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I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see. Do not misunderstand me. I…
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