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Scepticism – the other side of trust
This is an excerpt I posted as a comment at Steve Boriss’s futureofnews site, but worth repeating here. It’s from 1983, and it’s Theodore Lowi reviewing Seymour Martin Lipset and Bill Schneider’s trust epic The Confidence Gap. I think Lowi has probably the neatest re-framing the whole trust conundrum: If the so-called confidence gap is…
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More from Roger Ailes
You have to love this quote from Fox boss Roger Ailes in Broadcasting & Cable: Q: Are you getting more nervous as [the launch of Fox Business News] approaches? A: No. Look, when you die, the first 100 years in the ground is just the beginning. So you just can’t get yourself all worked up…
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Irwin Stelzer, big shot?
Much speculation in the Guardian around lively septuagenarian Irwin Stelzer, and the influence he does or doesn’t carry. Having just returned from the land of the free, I think it’s worth recalling that Stelzer ranks only modestly in the neo-con league, behind such luminaries as Norman Podhoretz. Last Thursday night, I went to hear Norman…
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Off topic: The Frick
Managed to get to the Frick today, probably my all time favourite art gallery. Among the countless gems, two great portraits, linked by green damask (the images below do them little justice btw). First up, one everyone knows – Holbein’s Thomas More (is the plodding Thomas Cromwell opposite really by the same hand?), painted in…