online archive
9:00AM
FEB 7 2008
Speaking in tongues
From The Atlantic Monthly, Paul Kennedy on The Imperial Mind: A historian’s education in the ways of empire. A review of books on global governance — to Strobe Talbott, it's inevitable; to John Bolton, it's surrender. A review of The Final Arbiter: The Consequences of Bush v. Gore for Law and Politics. A review of The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse by Richard Thompson Ford (and more). From Seed, Will Self and Spencer Wells meet up to talk about place, identity, and what it means to be human. From Scientific American, an article on why we kiss. From Newton to Einstein and beyond: Why strings? Where did the idea come from and why do we need such a theory? An equation-free introduction for beginners. Is religion losing the millennial generation? A review of Violence by Slavoj Zizek. More and more on 30,000 Years of Art. From TLS, a review of Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature; and a review of James Wood's How Fiction Works (and more). The Lessons of the Weather Underground: Former student radical Mark Rudd explains where he went wrong—and how young people today can learn from his mistakes. Speaking in tongues: South-East Asia's language wars continue. Public Intellectuals, Inc: It’s time to use the term "corporate intellectuals" to reflect the realities of the way the public engages with thinkers and their ideas.
