online archive
9:00AM
MAR 27 2008
Policy pointers for the next president
From the Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology, Satoshi Kanazawa (LSE): The Evolutionary Psychological Imagination: Why You Can't Get a Date on Saturday Night and Why Most Suicide Bombers are Muslim. From American Sexuality, an article on circumcision: What's a liberal, lefty, non-practicing Jew to do? The Art of Healing: Virginia Postrel on how better aesthetics in hospitals can make for happier—and healthier—patients. From Modern Age, an essay on Beauty as an Essential Characteristic of Civilized Culture. A review of Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making by David Rothkopf. A review of From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management Education by Rakesh Khurana. Some policy pointers for the next president: Get out of Iraq, work with (some) Islamists, create the Palestinian state — thereby, undercut Al-Qaeda. Shock treatment: A look at how to "decelerate" a teenager. American Book Review has made their list of the 100 best last lines from novels available online. The introduction to Creating the National Security State: A History of the Law That Transformed America by Douglas Stuart. The first chapter from People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States by Michael Emerson.
