Apologia Pro Literati Vita
Sunday, September 30, 2012

They Took Our Jobs!

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They took our joooobs! Tom Woods's remarks in a recent Mises Institute lecture brought to my mind the gaggle of grousing South Park d...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Égalité

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[Periander] sent an agent to Thrasybulus [the tyrant of Miletus] to ask what was the safest kind of government for him to establish, whi...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Just Suppose. . .

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You bought the tickets, cleared your work schedule, hired the babysitter, and finally you and the madamina head to the theater. Phantom ...
Friday, September 14, 2012

Haydn: Three Choral Fugues

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The choral fugue has long been the crown with which composers consummate their greatest works.  From the leaping dances of Bach's B ...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

Libertarian Invective, A Sample

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Just a little something I dashed off to friends in one of my surlier moments. I cannot begin other than condemning today's bipartisan...
Monday, August 20, 2012

Contemptuous Classicist: A Meme

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More after the jump.

Movie Review: Pianomania

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Directed by Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis. 2009. Stefan Knüpfer is not a famous man. His name graces no concert marquees or programs. S...
Monday, August 13, 2012

Robert Hughes on Caravaggio

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Art critic Robert Hughes wrote and narrated this documentary on Caravaggio in 1975. The section below begins Part III, the film's highl...

Movie Review: The Bourne Legacy

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Directed by Tony Gilroy. 2012. I entered The Bourne Legacy having retained nothing from the preceding Bourne films, save whiplash. I l...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Mozart: An Annotated Selection

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I just purchased Robert Harris' 1991 book, "What to Listen for in Mozart" and to my surprise what did I find inside? Why anno...
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