online archive
5:00PM
FEB 5 2008
Great art for the greatest numbers
Francis Fukuyama (JHU) and Michael McFaul (Stanford): Should Democracy Be Promoted or Demoted? From Slate, a book club on Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh (and more and more). Great art for the greatest numbers: An article on Dana Gioia's leadership of the National Endowment for the Arts. From Plato, what did Plato read? E. Kutash investigates. The introduction to The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters by Diane Coyle. Sean Wilentz on competing visions of the presidency: How do Clinton, Obama, Romney, and McCain understand the role of commander-in-chief? From TNR, everything you ever wanted to know about the Clintons' shadiest donors. Stanley Fish on how rational disaffection is one thing, but there's no end to the irrational hatred of Hillary Clinton. The power of love: An article on 100 years of romantic fiction. The New York Review of (Little Red) Books: How many degrees are there separating Stanley Fish, Tom Cruise, and Maoist revolution? Scott McLemee finds out. A pitiless literary hitman: A review of How Fiction Works by James Wood. Unacknowledged, unseen, unmentioned: An article on poverty in Europe. From The Moscow Times, a review of Marx's Das Kapital by Francis Wheen. What happens when a philanthropic project becomes so popular that it has trouble keeping up with demand?
1:00PM
FEB 5 2008
Da’s toch dope, man!
From LRB, a review of Praised Be Our Lords: The Autobiography by Regis Debray. More and more and more on Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir by David Rieff. Inside the Clinton and Obama war rooms, they’ve spent months preparing for Super Tuesday by shaping and reshaping two candidates with similar politics — but very different worldviews; and here are some things we’ve learned about this long, strange race. Getting past the '60s? It's not going to happen (and more). 1,000 Genomes Project: An article on expanding the map of human genetics. From n+1, an interview with a Hedge Fund Manager. An article on how economists dissect the "yuck" factor. From Preservation, amid our green-building boom, why neglecting the old in favor of the new just might cost us dearly. From TLS, a review of books on the World War I. Da’s toch dope, man!: The Dutch decriminalization debate moves to the "back door". A review of Discovering Levinas by Michael L. Morgan. A review of George's Secret Key to the Universe by Stephen Hawking and Lucy Hawking. From Progress, Alan Johnson on Perry Anderson, Pat Buchanan and the Israel Lobby. The Real Teens of Anytown USA: How media and technology are creating Generation Exhibitionist. Neither God nor Caesar: Being inherently pluralistic, it is incumbent upon the EU to develop a new form of secularization.
9:00AM
FEB 5 2008
The power of unreasonable people
From The Economist, a look at how America's own intelligence services have brought international policy on Iran to the edge of collapse (and more). From The Chronicle, why we still need academic freedom: Ominous new threats looming over the academy endanger not just higher education, but the very pursuit of knowledge; and academe is the Land of No — but at least it's consistent. Great literature? Depends whodunit: Today’s novelists feel as if they have to choose either pedestal or plot. A review of The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World by John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan. From Public Culture, Brian T. Edwards on American Studies in Tehran. Michael Chabon on Obama vs. the Phobocracy and Erica Jong on Hillary vs. the Patriarchy. From TLS, a review of books on cancer. The rise and rise of brand McSweeney’s: Is Dave Eggers now the most influential man in literary circles? Hispanic anti-Semitism: Latin America has a history of prejudice that's little known and increasingly worrisome. Wither MySpace: Could this mark the beginning of the end for the social networking behemoth? Where is your money? In our all-digital economy, only the computer knows. Sprinting down the evolutionary highway: Far from having stopped, the pace of "advantageous mutation" is moving much faster than we thought.
