by Lynn C. Rees | Mar 1, 2015 | Monitor
[by Lynn C. Rees] Warren Buffett claims for his master, champion investor Benjamin Graham, this observation: “In the short-run, the market is a voting machine […] but in the long-run, the market is a weighing machine.” The Graham school of...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 11, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — insight — from the artistic eye via the ayat of the Qur’an and poetic and scientific “readings” to the craft of intelligence analysis ] . You might think this was an image taken from some art book by EH Gombrich...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 3, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Kosovo I know little about, Timbuktu I’ve heard praised, Bamiyan I’ve visited ] . Synagogue: Before the conflict, the synagogue held thousands of religious and cultural treasures, including hundreds-years-old Torah scrolls,...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 7, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — is anyone taking religion seriously yet? ] . Icon of the Theotokos of Kazan, Moscow ** Amir Taheri isn’t the most reliable source I can think of — but his piece today on Asharq al-Awsat, The Black Madonna and the Russian...
by Charles Cameron | Feb 3, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on self representation, avatars, and what we may be missing ] . Caravaggio, Martha and Mary Magdalen, aka The Conversion of the Magdalen** Where to begin? The Washington Post doesn’t like selfies much, according to Galen Guengerich...