Monthly Archives: January 2010

Niall Ferguson and the Descent of Cash

By anewnadir | Published: 23 January 2010
I didn’t expect to update this blog at all while I was in India, since I’ve been more or less regularly updating the blog I made especially for this trip. However over the past few days I have been at the Jaipur Literature Festival. Given the high-brow nature of most of the events I felt [...]
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Hiatus, India

By anewnadir | Published: 17 January 2010
Erstwhile readers, oh devoted group of fellow dilettantes and archeophiles. Public Organ, as you may notice, has not been updated of recent. This is not because Zach and Walker, the editors, are doing nothing. Changing circumstances (geographic and intellectual) have caused us to divert our attentions to other self-made publications. Zach is [...]
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The Wings of Desire (1987)

By anewnadir | Published: 4 January 2010
Wim Wenders won (whew) Best Director at Cannes for this epic of peace starring Bruno Ganz as a slightly-more-than-ambivalent angel and Solveig Dommartin as the hottest French-Algerian this side of Zinedine Zidane. Not much for plot in this one folks, so we’ll cut straight to the analysis. Ganz and Otto Sander play Damiel and Cassiel, two [...]
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