¶ Matins: Despite misgivings, we have set our fear of a Trojan Horse aside, and decided to take an essay from The American Conservative at face value: evidence of real discussion in the conservative community — no more. With fairly painstaking analysis of the numbers, Ron Unz dismantles “His-Panic.”

¶ Lauds: Jens Laurson packs a bundle of history into a brief account of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, not only one of the oldest and largest of its kind but certainly the the most prestigious. Contrary to unexamined opinion, orchestras don’t grow on trees. (Ionarts)

¶ Prime: The Epicurean Dealmaker professes to evince what’s wrong with Goldman Sachs from the behavior of its PR man, Lucas van Praag.

¶ Tierce: Although we are confident that Descartes’s “psychological” metaphors will one day be overturned, we must acknowledged that that day has not yet arrived. Jonah Lehrer, at The Frontal Cortex:

¶ Sext: We’re not making this up! There used to be an irrational exuberance for portraits of Alan Greenspan, and Erin Crowe was to the go-to Gainsborough. Times have changed. (WSJ, via Arts Journal)

¶ Nones: On the occasion of Dick Francis’s death, the London Review of Books reminds us of a very strong appreciation of his work by Wendy Doniger from 1998. 

¶ Vespers: On the occasion of Dick Francis’s death, the London Review of Books reminds us of a very strong appreciation of his work by Wendy Doniger from 1998. 

¶ Compline: We’ll let you work out the relationship between Common Sense and Conformity for yourself. (Hint: they have little in common!) First, William Polley on Common Sense. Second, at Psyblog, “Ten Timeless Influencers” of Conformity. Dissent is the second.

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