online archive
9:00AM
MAR 24 2008
A post-fact society
From Asia Times, Spengler on the peculiar theology of black liberation. From CLR, a review of Coffee with Dickens by Paul Schlicke and Coffee with Aristotle by Jonathan Barnes. A review of The Great Wall: The Extraordinary History of China's Wonder of the World by John Man. Chile's disaffected "Pokemones" don't care much about politics — they're too busy having sex. From Slate, a conversation on True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society by Farhad Manjoo. Balls are plentiful in Vienna and almost anyone can buy a ticket — however, it is not easy to have an authentic experience like the Jagerball. A review of Carl Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste. Is military experience necessary to be a good commander-in-chief? Here's the evidence left by the leaders of the 20th century. An article on how we can learn from failed development aid in Africa. The college acceptance game has become a kind of social control, so don’t goof off: “Harvard” might not like it. London and Paris are about to hold mayoral elections — which has the brighter future? As nature writing can show, it's not obligation but love that leads to protection of the land. If you look at GDP per head, the world is a different—and, by and large, a better—place. Man has been trying to unlock the mathematical ratio pi for millennia; but why are we driven to find the answers behind it?
