DAVID GOTHARD Adam Smith’s Achievement The author of “The Wealth of Nations, published 250 years ago, did not invent many of the concepts of economics. But he united them into a vision of human flourishing. By JAMES GRANT MERICA'S BLOWOUT Fourth of July wasn’t the only semiquincentennial of 2026. “The Wealth of Nations,” too, turned 250, and the old pages still deserve turning. Socialism is on the…
100 عام على ميلاد الرواية الجزائرية: رقص وتيه في الصحراء . سعيد .ه . ٩ .. يُشير سليمان بن براهيم ونصر الدين ديني، أنهما أتما مخطوطة »خضرة راقصة أولاد نائل« عام 1909 ، ثم صدرت في طبعة أولى ومحدودة في العام التالي. قبل أن تصدر في طبعة ثانية منقحة واسّعة الانتشار ومرفقة برسوم في 1926، عن دار نشر في باريس اسمها )2ة(. وهذه أول رواية جزائرية في العصر الحديث، لأن ما صدر قبلها لم يكن سوى سير ذاتية أو ك…
Chris Mark’s castle in suburban Connecticut is the jumping-off point for Jon Ronson’s investigation — y. ruceco oy In his chilling foray into the extremes of online life, Jon Ronson meets the men who seek purpose in the attention economy. By John Self he British writer Jon Ron- son, who made his name with books including Them: Adventures with Extremists and The Psycho- path Test, has been quiet fo…
Rereading Hostages to Fortune by Elizabeth Cambridge This Thirties gem portrays early motherhood better than any other novel. By Laura Freeman hen my first daughter was born, I read almost nothing for six months. When she slept, which she largely didn''t, 1 gazed at her in wonderment or shopped online for multipacks of tiny vests. ‘When my second daughter was born two years later, she did sleep. I…
Chris Mark’s castle in suburban Connecticut is the jumping-off point for Jon Ronson’s investigation — 7srahec In his chilling foray into the extremes of online life, Jon Ronson meets the men who seek purpose in the attention economy. By John Self he British writer Jon Ron- son, who made his name with books including Them: Adventures with Extremists and The Psycho- path Test, has been quiet for a w…
The Taste of Childhood First Helpings By Deborah Albon and Amy Palmer Reaktion, 288 pages, $25 By ANNE MENDELSON HILDREN HAVE always been at the mercy of adult judgment and misjudgment about what is either healthful or au courant. For cen- turies the finest medical minds harped on attuning a balance among the four humors—sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic—in tender young constitutions …
Out of Asia's wartime imperial wreckage A sinologist’s history of the second world war is a thorough, if not the first, corrective to western narratives. By Pratinav Anil ans van de Ven, a sinologist at the University of Cam- bridge, opens Blood Dawn with the confidence of an explorer setting foot in terra incognita. Western histories of the second world war, he complains, remain fixated upon even…
د. أحمد جمال الدين موسى يذكر الدكتور أبو الغار أن اليهود المصريين كانوا مجموعات واللغة والأصل والعلاقة بمصر تاريخيًا، وكانت ظروفهم الاجتماعية والاقتصادية متفاوتة إلى حد كبير. يهود مصر. . قراءة فى كتابين من بين قراءاتى فى هذه العطلة الصيفية كتابان صادران عن دار الشروق، أحدهما للدكتور محمد أبو الغار »يهود مصر فى القرن العشرين - كيف عاشوا ولماذا خرجوا، )٢ذ٠٢(، والثانى كتبه ألبير آريه »مذكرات يهودى م…
THE ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM RED FLAG Above, ‘The Rape of Europa’ (1559-62) by Titian. Below, a member of the Norwegian black-metal group Gorgoroth. The Shock of the New, And the Very, Very Old Depraved By Daisy Dixon Viking, 304 pages, $32 By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN HAT IS bad art? For Daisy Dixon, who teaches philos- ophy at Car- diff University, the idea has noth- ing to do with art that is poo…
icero is dead. The great Roman statesman was assassinated more than two millennia ago, of course; though, for our purposes, we might say that it has been just 11 years. That was when Robert Harris released Dictator, the concluding volume of his “Cicero” trilogy which was as much about the fall of the Roman Republic as it was about its headline character, to an eager public. It was an instant best-…
