When Heather Mac Donald's piece "Classical Music's New Golden Age" came out in the summer edition of City Journal, I tweeted it enthusiastically. Articles like this are one of the reasons I'm a City Journal subscriber. In a world where we're constantly bombarded with doom and gloom predictions about classical music's future, it was refreshing to read to a contrarian perspective as a corrective. As a bit of a contrarian myself, I can especially appreciate this. One need not believe that the article is in fact literally true in order to enjoy the … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2010
There’s No Such Thing As Green Industry
I have always been skeptical of the idea of green industry. The bifurcation between green and non-green industry seems destined to be a temporary transitional state. In the future, probably less than a decade, there will only be industry, it will all be green, with only a few legacy exceptions winding down into the sunset. This immediately begs the question, if America isn't doing so well in non-green industrial development in an ever more competitive globalized world, why would we think that it will be any better for green industry? Why … [Read more...]
Indy’s “Son of Chicago” Parking Meter Lease to Be a Disaster for City
The next couple of generations will pay the price...It’s despicable, the way it went down...I don’t think the aldermen understood the long-term consequences of what they did. - Chicago Ald. Scott WaguespackThese deals are rarely done under the bright light of public scrutiny. Often the facts come out long after the deal is done. - Richard Little, Director of the Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy at the University of Southern CaliforniaI previously explained why signing a long term lease on parking meters was a bad … [Read more...]