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“Hunted Down” was published in instalments across 1859-60, almost 20 years after Poe’s detective story. This allowed time for the subgenre to have kicked off in earnest. Detective mysteries have never stopped being popular, and are today the most successful shows on TV. So, “Hunted Down...
Milton Friedman was an economist who was a strong proponent of free-market capitalism. One of his books was entitledThere's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch. The free lunch myth he discusses was the belief that the government can spend money at no one's expense. This, of course, is not ...
services isn’t what it once was, though – Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube Music now also claim 100 million, while Tidal puts its catalogue at “110+ million tracks”. It’s really all a bit tit for tat nowadays, with the big services all delivering choice overload, and then ...
He was to 18th-century North America as Björk is to modern Iceland. When Franklin came to France as the United States' first ambassador, Parisians snapped up all manner of Franklin kitsch. His image was plastered on snuff boxes and medallions, and engravings of the man adorned the walls ...
stranded with unreliable parents in the life-snuffing early 1800’s Ohio wilderness, through a life of staggering sacrifice, danger, and strength. Richter’s mid-century prose is, like his heroine Sayward, firm and honest. His patient examination of this woman’s life reveals how our gra...
• White was intrigued by the prospect of a Georges St. Pierre-Anderson Silva meeting, possibly in Toronto, to decide who really is the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world today. St. Pierre, though, has to pass a fairly tough test in Thiago Alves in July. If it's like most...
• White was intrigued by the prospect of a Georges St. Pierre-Anderson Silva meeting, possibly in Toronto, to decide who really is the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world today. St. Pierre, though, has to pass a fairly tough test in Thiago Alves in July. If it's like most...
That's what I was trying to explain to a friend the other day, who was a bit head-over-heels about the recent political turn: politics has much less effect on things than people think. In an era of abundant resources (per capita, of course), any hare-brained ideology or scheme is ...