British Economics: 1800-1914
This book examines in detail the so-called “Laissez-Faire Experiment” that dominated British government economic policy during the long nineteenth century: 1800 to 1914. Author W. Walker Hanlon (associate professor of…
The British Constitution: A Child of Conflict
Image above: the Magna Carta My headline for this book review derives from chapter 17 in volume 1, written by Robert Crowcroft (Univ. of Edinburgh). It is one of 42…
A Night of Living Genius: Musical Mixology with Stephen Hough & Ensemble ATX
Photo: Sir Stephen Hough ATX Chamber Music & Jazz has outdone themselves! The organization is less than three years old and has successfully wooed and wowed Austin’s classical (and jazz)…
Debut of the Roustabout Theatre Company
There is a new theatre outlet in Austin! Roustabout Theatre Company has kicked off its inaugural season with Stephen Sondheim’s musical Company, which premiered 55 years ago on Broadway. To…
Austin Symphony & Chorus: Carmina Burana
Carl Orff’s most famous composition, Carmina Burana, is a complex piece of music that defies any ordinary review. Our great Austin Symphony Orchestra performed the entire hour-long piece at their…
The Cover of Life
What an incredible and moving play! The playwright, R.T. Robinson, is nothing short of a genius, blending wit, culture, and the profound complexities of life in the 1940s with stunning…
Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike – The Play
I went to Christopher Durang’s Tony Award-Winning Comedy with mild excitement on opening night as I entered the Sterling Theatre. As a huge fan of Russian literature since my teens,…
Bob & Jean: A Love Story
A romance story set in WW II, currently playing at the Zach Theatre in Austin, does not bear any resemblance to the job the lead male character chose for his…
An AI that knows you better than you know yourself
Photo: Sir Tim Berners-Lee Sir Denis Hassabis, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year, is now the CEO of Google DeepMind. In March this year he gave a…
Building a Quantum Computer
Quantum computing has a great allure, but last year the physics Nobel Laureate Alain Aspect issued a caution. “It may be that quantum computers are as fantastic as we think…