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Decision making

A second chance

by Lydia Davis,

The curse of indecision

by Alexander George,

Reagan’s crackpot moralism

by Alan Wolfe,

A spreadsheet way of knowledge

by Steven Levy,

The Smartest Man in the Room

by Richard C. Holbrooke,

I‘m not sure anymore what the word smart means. The more it is used, the less it seems to mean. When someone is described as “really smart,” is that favorable…

La Fontaine revised

by Harper’s Staff,

One man’s meat

by E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White,

But you can’t have both! Notes on the dilemma of human choice

by Henry Pratt Fairchild,

— (II)

by Harper’s Staff,

Editor’s drawer

by W.F. Wise,