The Decline of the Traveling American
American influence abroad has undeniably declined in the past decade. A harder pill to swallow is the decline of American affluence. One effect of these twinned trends can be seen in the Institute of...
Category: Misc
The art of catchy titles
Recent events took me to England and the British Library. The British Library has been getting into digitization in a big way, for good reason: it improves their delivery time, has trackable access, and...
Nonprofits and Organization
Nonprofit organizations have an unfortunate reputation for not being that – organized, that is. Perhaps the best measure of a nonprofit is the percentage spent on administration and upkeep: the higher their internal costs,...
On Doctors and Fences
“Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies,” quoth Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey. (Naturally, it wouldn’t be a proper Jane Austen novel without gossip, rumors and love intervening in things.) It...
