Around the Web

For the week of Saturday, July 3 through Friday, July 9 2010.

1) From the WSJ, The Film Society of Lincoln Center is celebrating Clint Eastwood's 80th birthday with a two-week retrospective of the icon's 31 directorial efforts.

2) Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas on Gustav Mahler.

3) For the WSJ, Judith H. Dobrzynski talks to  Peter Meineck, who with an $800,000 grant from the NEH is taking staged dramatic readings of works by Athenian playwrights to 100 public libraries and art centers in 20 states.

4) In the WSJ, Will Friedwald with Svend Asmussen, 94, probably the oldest active major jazz musician in the world and the only one who's played with Fats Waller, Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli and Duke Ellington.

5) James Bowman on John Huston's 1948 classic, Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

6) At Mises Daily, John S. Chamberlain with Ten Economic Blunders From History.

7) At The New Atlantis, Jeremy Axelrod on the bewilderments of quantum theory and "Quantum Leaps" by physicist and science writer Jeremy Bernstein.

8) Via Life in Italy, the Colosseum is to be restored, protected and lit up permanently in a project starting later this year.

9) At The Volokh Conspiracy, Keynes vs. Hayek– 1932 Redux.

10-12) Three new articles on digital vs. printed books. [1] [2] [3]