Fox News gets facts, math wrong in report about NEA grants

Over the past week, Fox News has pushed a storyline on the recent National Endowment for the Arts “stimulus” grants that has an eerily familiar tone: The National Endowment for the Arts may be spending some of the money it received from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund nude simulated-sex dances, Saturday night “pervert”Read More

Around the horn: hello Providence edition

I’m writing from sunny Providence, RI, where I’ll be based for the rest of the summer while I work on some projects and continue the search for a permanent landing spot. In other housekeeping news, Createquity is getting ready to move permanently to createquity.com, with a snazzy new design and blogging platform (WordPress). We’re workingRead More

Value generators

Following up on my economics and value posts from last month (here and here), I’ve been trying to do a little research on how economists presently think about the relationship between value and economic growth. It’s a difficult proposition, frankly, because the concepts involved are so slippery. Most of the normal measures of value generationRead More

Further thoughts about Gifts of the Muse

I’ve been mulling over my Gifts of the Muse write-up for the past few days, and have come up with a few more reflections on the implications that the document holds for advocacy and policymaking. I hinted at this one at the end of my summary, but here it is fleshed out a bit more:Read More

Around the horn: bye bye New Haven edition

Long overdue, but Atul Gawande’s incredible article on the economics of health-care costs and the dark side of competition offers many lessons for the current debate in Congress and, indeed, for policy in general. The artists = crazy people thing just won’t go away. (Though, as Holden Caulfield might say, maybe it’s everyone else that’sRead More

Gifts of the Muse: the Cliffs Notes version

I’m realizing that, by making my Gifts of the Muse write-up so long, I might have gotten a bit in the way of the Arts Policy Library concept. (They won’t all be like that, I promise!) So, out of deference to those of you who didn’t make it all the way though and perhaps neverRead More

Arts Policy Library: Gifts of the Muse

A close look at the implications of a far-ranging report on the benefits of the arts.

More on economics and value

I’d planned to do this with my post on beating the recession, but since no one seems to be interested in that topic (who knew?), I’m instead going to post some comments from my thread from earlier this month on economics and the true meaning of “value.” In my original post, I asked: This, however,Read More

Around the horn: dog days edition

The IRS says not so fast on the L3C, stressing that it has not yet weighed in on the tax implications of the new legal form. Generation Y likes to talk a big game about change, but Rosetta Thurman says that if we really want it we’re going to have to prove it. Stephanie EvansRead More

New Blogs!

I recently switched from Thunderbird to Google Reader to view my RSS feeds, and am glad I did. I’m starting to think that blog-following is kind of like exercise – you sort of have to work yourself into shape. Luckily, my reading times are improving, because there are still a lot more great sites outRead More