I first met Murray Rothbard when, as treasurer of the New Jersey Libertarian Party, I invited him to give the keynote address at our inaugural convention. He graciously agreed to do it for the paltry sum of $75 plus a puny chicken dinner. Prior to his talk, I introduced myself to him, and we spoke for a while about the state of the libertarian movement before I mentioned that I was a graduate student in economics and was reading some of the books and articles that he had cited in his treatise
Man, Economy, and State. I never expected his reaction to my casual remark. His eyes immediately lit up and he could barely contain his enthusiasm. He feverishly searched his pockets for a pen to no avail and, when I offered him one, he asked me for my contact information and told me that he would pass it on to some people in New Jersey who had formed an Austrian economics reading group.
Collier’s,
Saturday Evening Post, and the
Saturday Review of Literature during the 1930s and 1940s. After leaving government service he resumed his career as a freelance writer. From 1953 through 1974 Bryan wrote about fifty articles for
Holiday magazine and numerous pieces for other journals. Other pieces Bryan published in national magazines included biographical works on the Aga Khan, the duke of Edinburgh, Britain’s Princess Margaret, and Katharine Hepburn, and in 1965 he wrote a biography of John Armstrong Chaloner for the
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. His only work of fiction, a short story entitled “First Patrol,” appeared in
Posted on Jan 31, 2021 in Theater Reviews
By Myra Chanin. . .
(L-R) Catherine Russell, Sarah Solemani, Linda Basset, Natasha Karp, Juliet Stevenson, Sophie Thompson, Debbie Chazen (Photo: John Brannoch) . . .
In May of 2015, I reluctantly shlepped over to a seedy Theater on the not quite lower East Side to see a play by a 28-year-old, prolific off-off Broadway playwright. Two hours later I extricated myself from a seat that crippled me, indifferent to everything but the depth and magic of Steven Carl McCasland’s skill, craft, flair, research, ingenuity and imagination. His
Little Wars was a really big deal.
Since then,
Little Wars, has been performed to great reviews in Bermuda, Costa Rica, Minneapolis, Arizona and most recently in London, where this modest production made the Guardian’s Top 10 best plays list. Even a global pandemic was unable to stop the power of
By Brett Milano
Harvard Correspondent/Harvard GazetteÂ
Bad day, or week? Or maybe itâs the endless eon that 2020 and the first month of 2021 have felt like?
A Harvard expert has some advice, and it doesnât involve diving ever deeper into coverage of the pandemic or politics.
âTry to have some perspective,â says Laura Kubzansky, Lee Kum Kee professor of social and behavioral sciences at Harvardâs T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). âIf you look at the history of world events, things are always changing. So it helps to avoid saying things like, âThis will never change, weâll be in this situation forever.â And it helps to recognize where the silver linings are â which Iâd say the news media is especially bad about doing.â
The witty and notoriously tempestuous Citizen Kane screenwriter comes into focus in this conversation between a Mankiewicz biographer and Fincher, whose new film Mank is remarkably faithful to the details of Hollywood history.