adrian monck

Month: December 2008

  • Unrequired Reading {29.12.08}

    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:

  • Unrequired Reading {23.12.08 to 27.12.08}

    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:

  • Portrait of a journalist

    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:

  • What we leave out when we write

    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…