Thursday, August 28, 2014 A short comment on money and independence During the (now ironically labelled) 'Arab spring' I read Alistair Horne's A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 . Reading th...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 Nectar for the gods: how money made Western culture different I've never really thought that the fact Greek gods lived off nectar and ambrosia was particularly consequential, but having read Richa...