online archive
5:00PM
MAR 11 2008
Life without showers is unimaginable
From Slate, an article on Big Business's Big Term: Victories for the Chamber of Commerce at the Supreme Court. By Doug Kendall. From The New York Observer, goodbye Mad Dog, hello Daddy-O: David Carey is Conde Nast’s new business paradigm. A review of Twilight War: The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance by Mike Moore. Stagflation is back — and it's even worse than you feared. Here's the latest research: Your brain on Krispy Kremes. Could a coffee maker be worth $11,000? How the Clover is changing the way we think about coffee. Alan Dershowitz on worshippers of death. Zealots of our time: More on Jacob Heilbrunn's They Knew They Were Right. More on The Craftsman by Richard Sennett. An interview with David Rieff, author of Swimming in a Sea of Death. A look at 7 insane conspiracies that actually happened. From The Symptom, Alain Badiou on Philosophy as Biography and Some Remarks Concerning Marcel Duchamp. Slaves in the Attic: An excerpt from Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. An unsanitised history of washing: To modern Westerners life without showers is unimaginable, but mankind somehow survived before the advent of soap and deodorants. From BBC Magazine, a look at the whitest place in England; and children are growing up too fast, but was childhood ever innocent?
