Is the First Amendment the Greatest Right of All? This lecture discusses a hierarchy of rights. Is the First...
Regulating the above average: Luck or skill? Considered thinkers from Mandelbrot ('fractals') or Keillor ('Lake Wobegon Days')...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...
The Guitar, the Steamship and the Picnic: England on the Move In the early nineteenth century, there developed an intimate and...
Beyond 'Surprise or Satisfy' a New Theory of Performance That the key to an audience's attention is to fulfil...
Britten and Auden: Inventive Days, inebriated nights at 7 Middagh Street, Brooklyn In 1936, Britten and Auden established a friendship and creative...
The New Art of Central Banking Following the Long Expansion and the global financial crisis, money...