Tuesday, November 04, 2008

• Who won the War of 1812? Author and artist Douglas Coupland provides an answer. (CBC News)
• 'Bloomsbury without servants. I never heard of such a thing.' Or so thought the otherwise liberal Virginia Woolf. In The Nation, Elaine Blair reviews Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury by Alison Light.
• Is the current financial crisis a repeat of the financial crisis of 1836 in the United States? (Commentary Magazine)
• 'Spend! Spend! Spend!' It's your public duty. And if you're spending on art, so much the better. Ed Winkleman explains.