If ever there was a sound that captured the upbeat 70s it would have to be ELO. Whether one was into rock ‘n roll, prog-rock, power pop (even Abba-rites doff their hats), or disco and much in-between, pretty much anyone could get behind ELO’s infectious hooks, lush tongue-in-cheek bombast, danceability and classy production. This emphasis…
Friendship is a rather unusual topic for Adam Smith scholars given the emphasis that the concept of sympathy has received in the field of Scottish Enlightenment scholarship. However it has been quite rightly pointed out that Smith considered sympathy to be central to commercial motivation (See Hanley, ms). The emblematic Smithian motto, the effort of…
David McPherson in Philosophy ConservatismDavid McPhersonDavid Wigginsjerry cohenMichael OakeshottPolitical philosophyRoger Scruton
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The most excellent Marcin Miłkowski. Cognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionheuristicsKen AizawaMarcin Miłkowski
Another giant leaves us. Obituary. Dave BartholomewFats Dominomusicnew orleans
The great tone meister Robin Trower is still laying it down. It was his Hendrix infused psychedelia that brought me to his Bridge of Sighs album in ’74 as it did for most others. bluesbridge of sighsguitarpsychedelic bluesRobin Trower
I was fortunate to chat at length with Kelly at the old Mikey’s about Fats. He even knocked out a couple of Fats numbers for me. (H/T Richie said). crowbarKelly Jay FordhamkeyboardsRonnie Hawkins
A collaborator of mine, Ted Lewis, has a new book out. Computer Scienceinformation agemathematicssignal processingTed Lewis
Was Adam Smith a Scottish philosopher? The question seems an odd one. He was a philosopher and he was Scottish. What more could we need to know, in order to arrive at the simple answer ‘yes.’ And in any case, why does it matter? On reflection, however, neither the question nor the answer seems so…
