This post is true, despite what day it is: I will be off on an 8-day, 3-city speaking tour in India beginning tomorrow, at the kind invitation of the…
Read moreI don't know about you, but I can't do a stitch of work unless there is music playing. There are lots of Doo Wop sites on the Web, but here i…
Read moreA friend tipped me off to a story about cassoulet , the great southwestern French dish, in Slate , by Katherine Lanpher. The piece is pretty well inf…
Read moreIt looks like Madoff has a good chance of being sentenced to the slammer for what will probably end up being the rest of his life tomorrow. At least,…
Read moreI think I have a pretty good idea about who is going to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism this year. That would be Gene Weingarten, whose story a…
Read moreThat's my response to Google's wanting my personal information, my whereabouts, my browsing habits--whatever they want, they can have it, now…
Read moreBetween deadlines and travel I have been neglecting the blogging the past couple of days, and now taking a few days in London to visit family and fri…
Read moreDonald A. Brown, an associate professor of environmental ethics science and law at Pennsylvania State University, has posted a very interesting comme…
Read moreI hope all readers of Balter's Blog are with their families and loved ones. Very best wishes to my regular readers and the occasional ones too.
Read moreAfter spending most of this year in Boston teaching, I am now on my way home to Paris. I am looking forward to seeing my family, going for my morning…
Read moreSome of you may recall the old television ad for the Smith Barney brokerage term, which featured actor John Houseman declaring, "We make money t…
Read moreI've been on the road this week, visiting friends on the West Coast, so blogging has been nonexistent--not that there is not plenty to talk about…
Read moreJust because she is so great, because this is an incredibly beautiful song, and because without music life is not worth living.
Read moreThis blog, not to mention the entire world, has been so fixated on politics lately that we have forgotten some of the most important things in life--…
Read moreIt's incredibly sad that Barack Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham , has not lived to see her grandson elected president of the United Stat…
Read moreAmerica has lost its greatest chronicler and oral historian. Please take some time and listen to Stud Terkel's radio programs on his Web site . I…
Read moreIt's pouring rain today in Manhattan, where I am having a little down time with my family, but Sunday was picture perfect. This blog does like to…
Read moreIt was inevitable that the pundits would weigh the "risks" and "benefits" of Obama taking time out to visit his gravely ill grand…
Read more"When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appe…
Read moreThe New York Times reports today that law enforcement officers in Chicago will no longer evict residents from foreclosed properties. The move was a…
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