Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Monday 27 July 2015


New on nybooks.comCreativity and the economy, explaining ISIS’s rise, Elon Musk, the revival of a great university in India, nail salons, and the art of Katsushika Hokusai.
 
Edmund S. Phelps
What is wrong with the economies of the West—and with economics? It depends on whether we are talking about the good or the just.
 
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Anonymous
None of our analysts, soldiers, diplomats, politicians, or journalists has yet produced an explanation rich enough—even in hindsight—to have predicted the movement’s rise.
 
Sue Halpern
The portrait of Elon Musk that emerges from Ashlee Vance’s new biography is of a man of visionary intellect, fierce ambition, and fantastic wealth, who is emotionally bankrupt.
 
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Amartya Sen
The powerful vision behind Nalanda University is important for India, for Asia, and for the rest of the world. It must be free of authoritarian and sectarian pressures.
 
Richard Bernstein
As a former New York Times journalist who also has been, for the last twelve years, a part owner of two day-spas in Manhattan, I read the paper’s nail-salon exposé with particular interest.
 
 
Christopher Benfey
Japanese ghosts have been haunting my dreams, summoned by a striking Katsushika Hokusai exhibition in Boston, and by other stray events that stirred up spectral associations with the Japanese master’s mesmerizing art.