Western Civilization
Niall Ferguson on the hot seat
… on robbing the young and what he really meant by that crack about Keynes
It’s complicated: understanding the relationship between the West and Asia
A new book explores what the East learned from both the brutality and the economic success of the West
Illuminated by the old Greek lightning
I’m sorry to read mostly tepid reviews for Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief this morning. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I was rooting for it because I like the central conceit of the kids’ book series on which it’s based: that Mount Olympus is presently hidden on the 600th floor of the Empire State Building.