online archive
9:00AM
MAR 11 2008
A sword among lions
The real problem with Power: In an ideal world, politicians and their advisers would be able to talk openly about their real thoughts and admit to doubts, but it would also be politically impossible. A review of The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the fight against AIDS by Helen Epstein. A review of The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris. Boys’ Club 2.0: The media is obsessed with boy geek geniuses, but where are the women? From Wired, an article on the myth of the "transparent society". A look at the the extent to which some people will sacrifice personal gain to benefit the wider public. A review of Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings. From The Economist, a special section on technology, including an article on the battle for Wikipedia's soul. Take a Dipso like You: Kingsley Amis’s advice on all matters alcoholic may not be helpful, but it is always lively. An excerpt from In Honor of Fadime: Murder and Shame by Unni Wikan. From TLS, historian of the future: An intellectual, a realist and an optimist, E. H. Carr respected power over all illusions of liberal morality; and dominant on page and stage: but is Shakespeare, the greatest writer in the English language, primarily a poet or a dramatist? Move over Galileo, it's Science 2.0: A look at how the Internet is changing the scientific method.
