“The economy is a complex system, our data are imperfect and our models inevitably fail to account for all the interactions. The bottom line is that we should expect less of economists. Economics is a powerful tool, a lens for organizing one’s thinking about the complexity of the world around us. That should be enough. We should be honest about what we know, what we don’t know and what we may never know. Admitting that publicly is the first step toward respectability.”--Roberts
Chris made pasta for Max and some friends last night.
Our walk was rained out.
An amazing new hotel in Lawrenceville.
The gospel contains the famous phrase,
"I am going to the Father;
for the Father is greater than I."
This complex phrase just drove thew Arians nuts.
Just 1% of women obtain an abortion because they became pregnant through rape, and less than 0.5% do so because of incest, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
Thomas Sowell warned against believing that it “is morally superior to be in organizations consuming output produced by others than to be in organizations which produce that output.”
“The economy is a complex system, our data are imperfect and our models inevitably fail to account for all the interactions. The bottom line is that we should expect less of economists. Economics is a powerful tool, a lens for organizing one’s thinking about the complexity of the world around us. That should be enough. We should be honest about what we know, what we don’t know and what we may never know. Admitting that publicly is the first step toward respectability.”--Will
"Thucydides’s Trap" occurs when a rising powerful nation demanding respect challenges an established nation, and fear on the part of the established nation leads to war. Thucydides, the Greek historian who chronicled the devastating wars between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC., observed this about ancient Greece: “It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable.” During the Peloponnesian Wars, Athens was the upstart and Sparta the existing dominant power. They were strikingly different, culturally and politically. The upstart Athens demanded respect from Sparta. Harvard professor of government Graham Allison writes: "Like so many others, Athens believed its advance to be benign. Over the half century that preceded the conflict, it had emerged as a steeple of civilization. Philosophy, drama, architecture, democracy, history, and naval prowess—Athens had it all, beyond anything previously seen under the sun…. As Athenian confidence and pride grew, so too did its demands for respect and expectations that arrangements be revised to reflect new realities of power."
The Miracle
"The Miracle" is a play made from a legend. It had gone through many iterations--poems, opera and after the play became several films. The first film was silent and colorized, one of the first.
In the story, a young nun wants to leave her nunnery and runs away (with a knight.) As she slips away, the Virgin in a Virgin with Child statue in the nunnery, steps down from her alcove and takes the place of the young fleeing nun. After many symbolic adventures the young nun returns to the nunnery, broken and ashamed, carrying with her, her dead baby. She steps into her previous position and clothes, and the Virgin returns to her alcove with the dead child.
It was written by Karl Vollmöller and directed by Max Reinhardt. The lead was played by Lady Cooper.
Chris made pasta for Max and some friends last night.
Our walk was rained out.
An amazing new hotel in Lawrenceville.
The gospel contains the famous phrase,
"I am going to the Father;
for the Father is greater than I."
This complex phrase just drove thew Arians nuts.
Just 1% of women obtain an abortion because they became pregnant through rape, and less than 0.5% do so because of incest, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
Thomas Sowell warned against believing that it “is morally superior to be in organizations consuming output produced by others than to be in organizations which produce that output.”
“The economy is a complex system, our data are imperfect and our models inevitably fail to account for all the interactions. The bottom line is that we should expect less of economists. Economics is a powerful tool, a lens for organizing one’s thinking about the complexity of the world around us. That should be enough. We should be honest about what we know, what we don’t know and what we may never know. Admitting that publicly is the first step toward respectability.”--Will
"Thucydides’s Trap" occurs when a rising powerful nation demanding respect challenges an established nation, and fear on the part of the established nation leads to war. Thucydides, the Greek historian who chronicled the devastating wars between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC., observed this about ancient Greece: “It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable.” During the Peloponnesian Wars, Athens was the upstart and Sparta the existing dominant power. They were strikingly different, culturally and politically. The upstart Athens demanded respect from Sparta. Harvard professor of government Graham Allison writes: "Like so many others, Athens believed its advance to be benign. Over the half century that preceded the conflict, it had emerged as a steeple of civilization. Philosophy, drama, architecture, democracy, history, and naval prowess—Athens had it all, beyond anything previously seen under the sun…. As Athenian confidence and pride grew, so too did its demands for respect and expectations that arrangements be revised to reflect new realities of power."
The Miracle
"The Miracle" is a play made from a legend. It had gone through many iterations--poems, opera and after the play became several films. The first film was silent and colorized, one of the first.
In the story, a young nun wants to leave her nunnery and runs away (with a knight.) As she slips away, the Virgin in a Virgin with Child statue in the nunnery, steps down from her alcove and takes the place of the young fleeing nun. After many symbolic adventures the young nun returns to the nunnery, broken and ashamed, carrying with her, her dead baby. She steps into her previous position and clothes, and the Virgin returns to her alcove with the dead child.
It was written by Karl Vollmöller and directed by Max Reinhardt. The lead was played by Lady Cooper.
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