South Carolina in 1786 made any defendant found guilty of pre- meditated mayhem subject to the death penalty. Mayhem was de...

   .. but of course, we might. Who has ever heard a sounder argument for the random walk theory of investing, than by applying it to the s...

For Tassos Paschalis Here, I lapse into a neo-academic voice that I'd like to think seldom surfaces at the page. What inspires it is a...

Tassos had a birthday; alas, it was last week There is an endearingly hilarious episode in Alan Moorehead's fond memoir of Berenson,...

Yes, but whose fault is that?

Possibly one of our most widely rec- ognised gestures, the freeing of one's foot from  confinement, is not available for our discussi...

jar and kate I feel very confident now of saying, it isn't always possible to know when one is ready to see a great painting . ...

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