Free-Market Environmentalists, that small band of economists, didn’t talk much about the National Park Service in the early 1980’s. In their effort to convince the public that the government is often a poor steward, they concentrated on commodity-producing agencies that are supposed to be efficient, agencies such as the Forest Service and the Bureau of...
Author: Jane S. Shaw (Jane S. Shaw)
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Barbara Pym’s Unsentimental Eye
Admirers of Barbara Pym have several regrets. The greatest is that there aren’t more of her novels. Pym would undoubtedly have written more had she lived longer, for her death in 1980 occurred at a time of renewed productivity. She certainly would have written more had she not suffered 14 years of publishers’ rejections. Pym’s...