In an effort to make travel safer and more pleasant for women, several new commuter trains in India are for women only.
Other Places I would Like To Be Only For Women
1. The women’s bathroom at the movie theater on 68th street last night. That was really weird.
The end.
xoxo
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(Sophie)
Archive for the ‘Personalities’ Category
A List in Response to a News: Ladies’ Specials? That’s What She Said!!!!
Posted in Asia, Foreign affairs, Personalities on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kristol and the Uses of Religion
Posted in Media, Personalities, Philosophy, tagged David Frum, Irving Kristol, shoddy intellectuals, Steve Vieux, Terry Teachout on September 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In my previous posting, I noted that Irving Kristol had a utilitarian attitude towards religion, viewing it as a necessary instrument of social control. For readers who might want more detail, I recommend this review of Kristol’s book Neoconservatism by Steve Vieux in New Politics.
Irving Kristol, RIP
Posted in Personalities, Philosophy, tagged Brad DeLong, Irving Kristol, shoddy intellectuals, William F. Buckley on September 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Irving Kristol died yesterday and I’ve been wrestling with the issue of whether I should write a note on his passing or not. When a political adversary leaves the scene, I’m inclined to follow the principal of “de mortuis nil nisi bonum” (of the dead, speak no ill). The passing of William Buckley, who had [...]
A Garden at Last for Kolakowski
Posted in Arts and Aesthetics, History, Personalities, Philosophy, Uncategorized on July 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I was sorry to hear from Jeet’s recent post that Leszek Kolakowski had died. As an undergrad I read and read again his penetrating collection of essays in Modernity on Endless Trial – an inspired title, I always thought. Fittingly enough for someone who was influenced by Kant, he shook me from some of my immature dogmas.
For instance, Kolakowski [...]
World’s leading black-studies scholar arrested
Posted in Personalities, U.S. Politics on July 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Harvard University Professor who specializes in African-American studies, has been arrested at his home on dubious charges of disorderly conduct. A statement by Gates and link to the police report are here. Some judicious comments are found in this thread on Crooked Timber (where I found out about it).
Cleopatra’s Dessert and Shark Fin Soup
Posted in Arts and Aesthetics, Asia, Environment, Foreign affairs, History, Japan, Personalities, Philosophy, Uncategorized, tagged black swan, Cleopatra, discount rate, humility, intergenerational equity, nuclear waste, Ramsey, shark fin soup, Taleb on June 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
At a Brussels nuclear law conference in 2007, I gave a technical paper on intergenerational issues in nuclear waste economics. I argued for the prudence of applying a conservative discount rate when setting aside funds for future nuclear waste management so as to guard against contingencies. Recently I had the chance to look at my argument again with fresh eyes [...]
Tennis Vagabond: a story of tennis, evil and everything else
Posted in Arts and Aesthetics, Film and documentary, Literature, Media, Personalities, Popular culture, Uncategorized, tagged commodification, death, drugs, evil, Illuminati, Kerouac, O'Rourke, physics, Sachs, sex, Tennis Vagabond on June 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Sans Everything depends not only on its writers, but also its readers. Given the huge difference between daily site visits and replies to our posts it is clear that the vast majority of visitors to the site are content to read quietly, which is perfectly fine with us. We are also delighted, however, to have some regular [...]
George Steiner’s Phony Learning
Posted in Arts and Aesthetics, Personalities, Philosophy, tagged George Steiner, Guy Davenport, real and fake learning, shoddy intellectuals on May 16, 2009 | 5 Comments »
George Steiner’s new book.
As a literary critic and essayist George Steiner is distinguished by his erudition, which is not just impressive but even intimidating. A quick glance through his books reveals that he’s a writer confident enough to sit in judgement of a vast range of cultural figures ranging from the poets of antiquity to great [...]
In Honour of Musa Khankhel
Posted in Arts and Aesthetics, Asia, Foreign affairs, History, Literature, Media, Personalities, Philosophy, Uncategorized on February 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
As with all his writing, Kafka’s masterful story Ein Brudermord (A Fratricide) can be read on many levels. Most immediately it is about the inexplicable murder of Wese by Schmar, with the neighbour Pallas a passive observer to the scene; Wese’s wife arrives too late, only to discover her husband is already dead. Yet on a deeper [...]
