online archive
5:00PM
MAR 6 2008
Pushing polyamory to its tipping point
Harvard’s Ben Olken, 32, studies the economics of bribery and assassination in developing nations. Juan Cole on Barack Hussein Obama, Omar Bradley, Benjamin Franklin and other Semitically-named American heroes. James Surowiecki on the trouble with homes. A review of The Supreme Court: An Essential History by Peter Charles Hoffer. On YouTube, nothing's too banal; the website is awash in video, few interesting. A review of On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman. From City Journal, Christopher Hitchens on prisoner of shelves. From Psychology Today, an interview with Karim Rashid, author of Design Your Self. An interview with the Institute for Justice's Chip Mellor on campaign-finance reform, eminent-domain abuse, and licensing laws gone wild. A review of Venus Khoury-Ghata’s Nettles. A review of The Postmodern Imagination of Russell Kirk by Gerald Russello (and more). Regina Lynn on how the Internet is pushing polyamory to its tipping point. The first chapter from The Red Queen among Organizations: How Competitiveness Evolves by William Barnett. The introduction to Beyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Its Astonishing Implications for Our Future by Jeffrey Bennett. A review of Desiring Arabs by Joseph A. Massad. A review of Perfumes: The Guide by Luca Turin.
