On the issue of tort "reform" and high litigation rates in the U.S., Anthony Lewis
writes in the April 9th issue of the
New York Review of Books:
"This country is notoriously lacking in safety nets that are taken for granted in other advanced societies. Medical care is guaranteed by the state, by one method or another, in Canada and all European countries; in the United States upward of 40 million people have no medical insurance. Around 46 percent of employed Americans get not even one day of paid sick leave—which is guaranteed by law in 145 other countries. Lawsuits are often a substitute for safety nets."
The latest volume of Samuel Beckett's vast correspondence is creating a lot of
buzz (and
here), apparently for good reason. On more than one occasion, Beckett was ready to abandon writing altogether. As he
wrote in 1936:
"I hope I am not too old to take [flying] up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them."
PHOTO: Samuel Beckett by Louis le Brocquy, 1979 (Wikimedia Commons)
The latest volume of Samuel Beckett's vast correspondence is creating a lot of buzz (and here), apparently for good reason. On more than one occasion, Beckett was ready to abandon writing altogether. As he wrote in 1936: 
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