
These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life: Continue reading

These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life: Continue reading
These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life: Continue reading
The strange subtheme of David Samuels’ New Yorker portrait of John Coster-Mullen, a man obsessed with the truth about the first atomic bombs, is actually journalism itself: Continue reading
I was first introduced to the economic concept of opportunity cost as I sat through eucharist as a young chorister, listening to a section of the liturgy that asked forgiveness for “the good we have not done.”
The opportunity cost of every moral act was “the good left undone.”
For Mark Twain the cost of writing came at the expense of the opinions left unexpressed. And, as being dead is no barrier to writing for the New Yorker, you can read Twain’s essay in the 22 December, 2008 edition (abstract only).
His point is simple but enduring, that we are our own worst censors: Continue reading