online archive
9:00AM
FEB 19 2008
The essential guide to the latest thinking
From The Washington Post Magazine, a cover story on How Lobbyists Always Win: Dispatches from Washington's most relentless growth industry. From National Journal, the job is highly demanding, but the financial rewards of running a Washington trade group or other non-profit have never been greater. A review of Cullen Murphy's The New Rome? From THES, the humanities have traditionally been the core of a classical university education, equipping graduates both culturally and morally; today, however, humanities academics are increasingly questioning their purpose; and it is not often that you will find respected academics saying "I want to be Kelly McGillis, in Top Gun, kissing Tom Cruise", at least not in public. A review of Big Ideas: the Essential Guide to the Latest Thinking by James Harkin. What Nietzsche means to philosophers today: Prescient and misunderstood or excessively sensitive and irrelevant? A review of The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France (1977-1978) by Roland Barthes. A review of Flat Earth News: an Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media by Nick Davies (and more and more and more). From Nerve, an interview with David Shields, author of The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead; and more on the history of single life: Plato's Retreat and Swingtown USA.
