4.30 Lawrence H. Summers, in conversation with Bill Kristol: “The issue is becoming, in a meta sense, confidence in the United States. When people go in and out of being confident in you, that is alarming. It’s the kind of thing that in a developing country, you’d ask yourself whether they’re going to have to …
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After Montreal, we headed further north to visit Quebec City, where neither of us had ever been. It’s a very beautiful city. On Sunday, we visited the still snow-spotted Plains of Abraham, where the British general Wolfe defeated Montcalm, the excellent general who had already won important battles at Fort Ticonderoga and Fort William Henry. …
We spent three days in a mostly but not entirely overcast Montreal. We stayed in the elegant Hotel Bonaparte in Vieux Montreal, just a short walk from La Place des Armes, where we saw the statue of the chevalier and Notre Dame. That night we had a wonderful dinner at the posh hotel restaurant. On …
4.4 On the way to Montreal, we stop in Plattsburgh, on the northern shore of Lake Champlain. 4.3 Jesse Kornbluth dies at 79. 4.3 The Economist: “If you failed to spot America being “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far” or it being cruelly denied a “turn to prosper”, then congratulations: you …