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New Year’s Greeting [by Lera Auerbach]
BEST WISHES TO ALL AT BAP FOR A HAPPY AND HEALTHY 2011 – from Lera Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets…
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Create and share (by Tynan Davis)
I loved Laura Orem's post yesterday. Despite the distractions and worries, we keep trying to make the world a better, kinder place. From the heavy-hitting global initiatives set forth by The Elders to a…
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The Draft Dodger Blues (by Larry Epstein)
People want me to join the Grand Army of Literary Pessimists. A recruiting sergeant for the Army comes to visit me regularly in the darkest corner of the night when I'm unable to sleep.…
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Byron Rushes to the Defense of Astrology
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!If in your bright leaves we would read the fateOf men and empires 'tis to be forgivenThat in our aspirations to be great,Our destinies o'erleap their mortal…
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Alfred Kahn, 1917-2010 by Stacey Harwood
I came to know Alfred Kahn through his two-volume Economics of Regulation, one of the texts I studied in graduate school. Read it if you want to know everything there is to know about…
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Something to Think About (by Laura Orem)
The New Year is coming. We take stock of the last 365 days, weigh up the disappointments – always so many, both personal and communal – and relish the triumphs – thankfully, always one…