online archive
1:00PM
MAR 12 2008
Who are the true barbarians?
A review of The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes (and more and more and an excerpt and an interview). The "A" word: Is there one political story the press shouldn’t report? A review of Philip Davis’s Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life. Who are the true barbarians? Ancient people lived less violently than modern advanced societies and left a lighter footprint on the earth. The accuracy rate of “conventional wisdom” in this presidential election has plummeted to new lows — here’s a look at which “widely held beliefs” have succumbed to reality. From The New York Times Magazine, a special issue on Money. From Lacan.com, Slavoj Zizek on Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses (and part 2). A self-described "centrist" is minding Barack Obama's economic policy store — will this centrist prove a pitchman for plutocrats, or should the wealthy start to worry? The joy of boredom: Don't check that e-mail; don't answer that phone; just sit there — you might be surprised by what happens. More and more on The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap by Susan Pinker. A review of Everyman News: The Changing American Front Page by Michele Weldon. Orc Holocaust: An article on the reprehensible moral universe of Gary Gygax's Dungeons & Dragons.
