“Most of us are not serious at all. We want to be entertained. We want to be told what to do. We want someone else…
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Commentaries about anything that interests Mark, including reviews of other writers’ work. How’s that for open ended?
Last year, the Guardian had a wonderfully entertaining collection of rules from various writers. Many are prescriptive, and so, are useless. But many are quite…
Comments closedThis note comes from Henry Minzberg, Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University in Montreal. I fully endorse…
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Orwell: The Prevention of Literature
“In our age, the idea of intellectual liberty is under attack from two directions. On the one side are its theoretical enemies, the apologists of…