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What is so striking in this long article on Apple retail stores in the New York Times titled Apple’s Retail Army, Long on Loyalty but Short on Pay is that in the comments section so many writers defended the Apple … Continue reading →

Mr. Gelb's usual chatter seems better organized and more succinct in this essay. Conjecture: one of Tina Brown's subordinates has assigned a new editor with the chore of revising his essays before publication. Or perhaps a cassette tape arrives at … Continue reading →

Compare the more empirical and historically based , revelatory arguments of Paul Krugman, on the Greek crisis and election, with the usual politically exploitable left wing paranoia of Conservative Ross Douthat. Although the discussion are not exactly parallel, Mr. D. … Continue reading →

"“We have a sense that the economic order we knew in the second half of the 20th century may not be coming back at all — that we have entered a new era for which we have not been well … Continue reading →

Mr. Brooks begins his latest essay as a diatribe against contemporary monuments in the nations capitol, the mixture of aesthetics and politics is choice that leaves the regular reader of the platonically inflected political chatter of Mr. Brooks a bit … Continue reading →

I can't say that the Ross Douthat essay of June 9,2012 titled Eugenics,Past and Present is surprising in any way. Mr. Douthat manufactures some self-serving political hysteria regarding research led by Jay Shendure, a professor at the University of Washington, … Continue reading →

If your looking for a diversion from the more troublesome aspects of your own life, and/or the failure of the Republic, the latest David Brooks essay titled The Moral Diet can supply something that almost resembles serious human thought. We … Continue reading →

David Brooks cannot resist the temptation to present himself as public moralist even when discussing the career choices of the 'student elite' as in this essay of of May 24, 2012 obliquely titled The Service Patch. A side note: Mr. … Continue reading →