Kerry Abrams (Virginia) and Peter Brooks (Yale): Marriage as a Message: Same-Sex Couples and the Rhetoric of Accidental Procreation. Can a book really look like the web? This is apparently Guinness's latest innovation to trick boys into reading. The first chapter from Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Frans de Waal. From Wired, an interview with Oliver Sacks. We've spend years being bludgeoned by zealots wielding sex as a weapon to divide America; is it time for a new sexual revolution? A look at some of the threats facing archaeological sites around the world from global warming. A review of Psychiatry and Empire. In Vino: Culture and cocktails in the nation’s capital. In nearly every realm of art and culture, the grumpy old white male has been excised from the canon, except when it comes to cocktails and the Very Dry Martini. What is it about the look of early 1960s Manhattan that is so appealing? A review of Nylon and Bombs: DuPont and the March of Modern America by Pap Ndiaye. From the Claremont Review of Books, a series on the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial. From Chronicles, Daniel Larison on Lincolnism Today: The long marriage of centralized power and concentrated wealth. Conservatism's original sin lies not in its bombastic and noxious neo-conservative interlopers, but in the tragic nature of conservatism itself.
