The moral life of cubicles
From The New Atlantis, Yuval Levin on science and the left: The past and future of the “party of science”; an essay on neuroimaging and capital punishment: Brain scans and the conflicted aspirations of neuroscience (and a look at the limits of neuro-talk); an article on The Moral Life of Cubicles: The utopian origins of Dilbert’s workspace; Thomas Merrill reads Descartes’ Discourse on Method; a review of Shopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves by Andrew Szasz; a review of When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine by Barron Lerner; and more on Love and Sex with Robots by David Levy. Chris Mooney on how lobbyists screw scientists over and over and over again. Michael Tomaksy reviews Martin Amis's The Second Plane: September 11, Terror and Boredom (and more and more and more and more). From TNR, Michelle Cottle on the Clinton campaign's fatal psychodrama: Hillaryland is a far more conniving place than you had imagined. A Confederacy of Dunces: Here's the Official Village Voice Election-Season Guide to the Right-Wing Blogosphere. Bill Moyers interviews Martha Nussbaum on Liberty of Conscience. A review of The World We Want: How and Why the Ideals of the Enlightenment Still Elude Us by Robert B. Louden.
