online archive
1:00PM
JUL 24 2008
How to spot a quack
From THES, a review of Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home by Pamela Stone; and a review of Great Satan's Rage: American Negativity and Rap/Metal in the Age of Supercapitalism by Scott Wilson. From World Affairs, Robert Leibler on Falling Upwards: Declinism, The Box Set. A wrongheaded experiment to prove poor people are lazy shows it’s easy to succeed when you’re young, healthy, white, and male. Cracking Code Pink: Why does the peace movement have to dress and act like an irritating children's birthday party? From FT, the sculptures made by many great 20th-century painters illuminate modernism’s metamorphoses of forms and matter; Hollywood’s holocaustic imaginings give Nigel Andrews cause for thought; and Olympic architecture is about far more than sport. Shorts and Fannies, a brief history: An explainer on Fannie Mae, short-selling and government economic regulation. Talking to the plumber: John Derbyshire on the I.Q gap. A review of Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America by Elisa Tamarkin. A bad week for alternative medicine: Rose Shapiro explains how to spot a quack. From Standpoint, Michael Burleigh on how to defeat the global jihadists; and more on Terror and Consent (and more and more and more and more and more). Philip Bobbitt on why we need clearer rules on when to cross borders.
