Will there be a return to servants?
Megan McArdle at the Atlantic, following Arnold King, asks this. Why hasn’t rising inequality resulted in in the much-predicted oligarchy? Or to put it as he does: with so many…
Read moreWho’s a farmer?
Farmers are now good news. When I was a kid they were not. They were hicks, people with dirt under their fingernails. Now they are honored. But which farmers? Here’s…
Read moreFrom grim to chic: tea kettle broth
A couple of posts back I talked about my mother’s pity for those who had to subsist on tea kettle broth or, to give it another of its names, toast…
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