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Lord of the Dance

September 28, 2012 John B. Buescher 0

“Medicine-man, relent, restore— Lie to us,—dance us back the tribal morn!” —     Hart Crane, “The Bridge: The Dance” Please take “Lord of the Dance” out of your hymnbooks, assuming you don’t attend a Gnostic church. […]

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False Profits

March 13, 2012 John B. Buescher 0

I. Payoff at Infinity In 1933, at the height of the worldwide economic depression, G. K. Chesterton wrote, “The modern world began by Bentham writing the Defense of Usury.” He was referring to Jeremy Bentham’s […]