David Brooks’ latest column better as a book.
by Will on July 29, 2009
David Brooks’ latest column better as a book.
Tagged as: David Brooks, Infertility, P.D. James, The Children of Men
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Nobel Peace Prize Jury Faces Formal Inquiry
Read the story here. Here’s the paragraph that would make clicking through worthwhile, if you’re still undecided:
If the Stockholm County Administrative Board, which supervises foundations in Sweden’s capital, finds that prize founder Alfred Nobel’s will is not being honored, it has the authority to suspend award decisions going back three years — though that would be unlikely and unprecedented, said Mikael Wiman, a legal expert working for the county. ( 4 comments)
A Little Side Project of Mine
As if I needed another blog! This one’s dedicated to translating some of the never-before-translated work of the French neo-Romantic poet Edmond Rostand, author of Cyrano de Bergerac and member of the Académie française.
Everyone knows Cyrano, of course, but much of Rostand’s lyric work has never been read in English before. I’m trying to change that, one poem at a time. ( 7 comments)
Regulatory Capture
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal ( 2 comments)
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The movie was pretty good, too. I keep meaning to read the book.
Cuaron’s cinematography is fantastic, but the movie’s premise isn’t as well-developed or as interesting as the book’s. And why the heck are immigrants stigmatized in the film? You would think that the demand for cheap labor would go up in a society without children.
Yeah, that was weird. Totally political, I suppose. Damn Hollywood liberal East-coast elitist snobs.
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