A new and very real danger
From State of Nature, Paula Cerni on why atheism is not enough: A socialist dare to religion and science. Joseph Epstein on The Kindergarchy: Every child a dauphin. From Wired, here are the 8 best non-Wikipedia pedias. David Greenberg on 5 myths about the vice presidency: "Not worth a bucket of warm spit"? Politico offers its own Guide to Undisciplined Messaging, a list of dirty words or phrases that surfaced in this campaign but are better left unsaid. End-time thinking could once be dismissed as a harmless remnant of a more superstitious age, but with the rise of religious fundamentalism, prophets of apocalypse have become a new and very real danger. From Asia Times, an article on how the Pentagon shapes the world. From BBC Magazine, click, clack, bing: Why the typewriter is still king; and how does a writer emulate the style of a famous author? More on Superclass by David Rothkopf. What Happened with What Happened: Peter Osnos on the McClellan book and its raging critics. From The New York Times Book Review, a special issue on Summer Reading, including a review of The Necessity of Theater: The Art of Watching and Being Watched by Paul Woodruff. You know the feeling that something is on the tip of your tongue? It offers deep insights into the nature of the mind. Is the political novel dead? Not according to the cover story of this month's Bookforum.
