Arcadia: The Elite Dream of Happiness

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about Arcadia recently, partly as the result of reading Adam Nicolson’s Earls of Paradise: England and the Dream of Perfection (2008).  It describes the…

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Horse Meat in a Sauce: An American Perspective

The French can . . . put a liquid overcoat, and  non-pronounceable name, on a slice of horse meat and have an American wondering if it’s breast of veal or…

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God Made a Farmer. Oh Really?

Together God and Dodge have brought us a farmer, in a video that’s going viral on the web.  The pundits just can’t get enough of it. Ah, the simpler yet…

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