If politicians were painters, with FDR as Titian and Churchill as Rubens, then Attlee would be the Vermeer of the profession: precise, restrained—and long undervalued. Bill Clinton might aspire to the heights of Salvador Dalí (and believe himself complimented by the comparison), Tony Blair to the standing - and cupidity - of Damien Hirst.
In the arts, moral seriousness speaks to an economy of form and aesthetic restraint ...
Tony Judt, 'Austerity', (NYRB)
2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #36
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A listing of 34 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared
on social media during the past week: Sun, September 1, 2024 thru Sat,
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