online archive
5:00PM
FEB 14 2008
We should stop teaching handwriting
From Dissent, do juries matter? A symposium on the uses and abuses of the jury system. From Harper's, an interview with John Brabender on how the GOP will run against Obama. From The Weekly Standard, the inconvenient truths of 2008: Four things the party loyalists won't want to hear. From Jewcy, an interview with the only rapping Jewish faith healer in the presidential race. From YaleGlobal, an articled on why developing countries are worse off than once thought (and part 2). Thomas Palley on breaking the neoclassical monopoly in economics. Brad DeLong is in Marx’s shadow again. From TNR, more on The Discovery of France by Graham Robb. From The Root, an article on surviving on a blackness-only diet. From Good, an article on why we should stop teaching handwriting. A review of Poe: A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd. The End of Aging? A look inside the new hunt for a cure to growing old. A look at how maths can improve the every day decisions we make. Chris Hedges on the Christian Right's emerging deadly worldview: Kill Muslims to purify the Earth. More on Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory by Randall Collins. Master of the orgasm: A fresh look at Wilhelm Reich, the laughingstock of psychoanalysis. A review of Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin (and more and more and more).
1:00PM
FEB 14 2008
Guess who’s coming as dinner?
From Slate, a series of articles on philanthropy. Abraham's Curse: We must confront our ancient fixation on the slaughter of the innocents. From Inside Higher Ed, should college and university professors alone have their work protected by "the scholar’s woolen cloak"? Harvard approves a plan that will post finished academic papers online free, unless scholars specifically decide to opt out. From The New York Times Magazine, fifteen film actors whose performances in 2007 marked a career-defining moment — and set them above the rest. Cement is the most widely used substance on the planet after water — unfortunately it is also one of the most polluting. Seeing green in Africa: Can Gates develop a new operating system for farmers? A look at why Bill Gates hates William Easterly's The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. A review of Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism by Alfred S. Regnery. An interview with Philip Roth: "Bush is too horrendous to be forgotten". More and more on Liberal Fascism. Whom should we admire? More on Paul Johnson's Heroes. An article on London, New York, Paris and why they matter to designers. Guess who's coming as dinner? It's not enough anymore to glance at the “antibiotic-free” sticker and dig in. A look at the 6 cutest animals that can still destroy you.
9:00AM
FEB 14 2008
Humanitarianism as a politics of life
From Public Culture, Didier Fassin on humanitarianism as a politics of life. From Ovi, an essay on Vico's poetic philosophy: between Descartes and Nietzsche. A review of John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice by Thomas Pogge. From Mute, all problems of notation will be solved by the masses: If relational aesthetics and open source were always commercial, can the musical score provide a way of thinking through different relationships between creativity and code? There is more to Richard Posner’s book on public intellectuals than the Top 100 list, and Scott McLemee revisits it. Time to liberate the Liberator: Chavez rewrites the history of his hero; and a review of Simon Bolivar: A Life by John Lynch. For polyamorists with a whole lotta love, three, or more, is never a crowd. Brain and behavior researchers say many couples are going about date night all wrong. Misunderstanding "Generation Me": Research on whether young people today are more self-involved than previous generations confuses narcissism with disillusionment. A review of Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks From the Wild Web. Buying a cure: Jerome Groopman on what business know-how can do for disease. A review of Contraptions by Heath Robinson. The Identity Dance: The idea that genes determine identity has been replaced with a new view in which DNA and life experience work together to mold personalities.
