online archive
1:00PM
MAR 10 2008
We can now map everything
With his ballot in his hand: An interview with anthropologist Margaret Dorsey on music, marketing, and Texas politics. We can now map everything — from illness to endangered species. A new issue of Edge is out. Is the mainstream press unbiased? What it really thrives on is conflict. Wanted: Einstein Jr — Something seems wrong with the laws of physics; spacecraft are not behaving in the way that they should. A review of Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop’s Autonauts of the Cosmoroute: A Timeless Voyage from Paris to Marseille. A review of Originalism in American Law and Politics: A Constitutional History by Johnathan O'Neill. An excerpt from Inside the Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past and Promising Future by Newton N. Minow and Craig L. LaMay (and a look at memorable moments from presidential debates). A review of Race, Equality, and the Burdens of History by John Arthur. It takes a long time and a lot of research, but now you know: "Original Sin" has nothing to do with sex. Nick Hornby began the trend of the nobody-turned-somebody autobiography; in a culture of blogs, sex diaries and childhood-abuse memoirs, can Jasper Rees hack it with his narrative about the french horn? The first chapter from Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the Suburbs by Christopher Bonastia.
