online archive
9:00AM
FEB 1 2008
The real surreal world
From Parameters, Carl Ceulemans (RMA): The Moral Equality of Combatants; and an essay on rethinking morality in war. From The Atlantic Monthly, a review of Christian Dior by Marie-France Pochna; The Golden Age of Couture by Claire Wilcox; Balenciaga Paris by Pamela Golbin and Fabien Baron; and Balenciaga and His Legacy by Myra Walker. The Neurosciences of Religion: How the neurosciences explain religion or not. The Real Surreal World: Why are the most visceral, defining moments in our life often perceived as unreal or dream-like? An excerpt from Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing by Christopher Rowe. The introduction to Justice: Rights and Wrongs by Nicholas Wolterstorff. An excerpt from The Structural Evolution of Morality by J. McKenzie Alexander. From Virginia Quarterly Review, I make myself unimportant: A symposium on the life and work of Ryszard Kapuscinski. William Blake's "London" is a devastating portrait of a society in which all souls and bodies were trapped, exploited and infected. An art form that enlivens our city or a mindless act of vandalism: Attitudes to graffiti are wildly ambivalent, but jail terms for graffiti writers? From the last issue of Public Opinion Pros, who wears the pants? An article on Hillary Clinton’s prospective First Gentleman; and a look at why popular government may have an optimistic future.
