online archive
5:00PM
MAR 7 2008
Hypothetical threats of megadeath
From Monthly Review, an article on the health care crisis in the United States; and who really won the Space Race? Marriage isn't the half of it: Laws should grant the same rights to all of today's families. A review of Describing Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic by Russell T. Hurlburt and Eric Schwitzgebel. A review of Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge by Gerald M. Edelman. The most relevant lesson to take from Japan’s economy in the 1990s was that the interplay between financial and real economic bubbles causes serious damage. A review of George Steiner’s My Unwritten Books. From Mute, what does continue to evolve are repressive forms of population management sustained by hypothetical threats of megadeath. A review of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order by Parag Khanna (and an interview). "Love, American Style"s debut was at the very instance when everything censors and prudes had worried over seemed to bubble and blister just beneath the social surface. Laurence Tribe on sanity and the Second Amendment. Michio Kaku on teleportation: very possible; next up, time travel. 400 years after his birth, John Milton remains our most thrilling poet. The journalist as novelist of New York: It's almost a disappointment to find Pete Hamill, legendary New York newspaper man, in this pristine, modern university office.
