online archive
5:00PM
MAR 14 2008
Being nice can ruin your life
From World Politics Review, an article on the United Nations' unscientific war on biotechnology. A review of The Age of Assassins: the Rise and Rise of Vladimir Putin by Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Pribylovsky. A review of Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age. A review of The Bluest State by Jon Keller. An article on the gruesome origins of 5 popular fairy tales. From In These Times, an article on The New Cartographers: What does it mean to map everything all the time? A review of The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Theasaurus by Joshua Kendall. More on The Race Card by by Richard Thompson Ford. A review of Soul of the World: Unlocking the Secrets of Time by Christopher Dewdney. More on Reagan's Disciple by Lou Cannon and Carl Cannon. The apostle of sprawl: Libertarian advocate of the suburbs Ronal O'Toole argues they speak to our deep need for privacy, space and security; might he have a point? Things Fall Into Place: Chinua Achebe remembers how he came to be the father of modern African literature. Being nice can ruin your life, according to the authors of two new books; their advice? Stop being so pathetic! Uplifting the “Dangerous Classes”: What Charles Loring Brace’s philanthropy can teach us today. An article on measuring the welfare gain from new goods, using the personal computer as an example.
