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“It’s better to burn out,” sang Neil Young as the house rocked, as his guitar fuzted and fuzzed its rough way, “than to fade away.” And burn they did, through the blue, right into the black: the light, star white that bright and dry Texas morning, scarring sage and the tar of school roofs, the [...]
The primary ethical question in Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” from the perspective of contemporary economics, is what value is Bartleby providing for his employer, our unnamed narrator? Bartleby claims he is “not particular,” but also that he “prefers not to” do any particular task with which he is charged, any of the common things a [...]