online archive
5:00PM
FEB 4 2008
Shopping Town USA
From Forbes, a series of articles on champions, including Tim Harford on rewarding mediocrity: Governments love to pick champions, so why are they so good at picking losers? More and more on The Logic of Life: Undercovering the New Economics of Everything. A review of The African American National Biography. From Mute, Shopping Town USA: Victor Gruen, the Cold War, and the shopping mall. The introduction to Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? by Robin Archer. The Lost Art of War: Hollywood’s anti-American war films don’t measure up to the glories of its patriotic era. From Geotimes, an article on oil around the world. Authoritative guide to global warming: Simon Singh reviews The Hot Topic by David King and Gabrielle Walker. From Peace, an interview with Colonel Robert Helvey on training pro-democracy movements. From Peacework, a review of Bomb after Bomb: A Violent Cartography by Elin O'Hara. An article on the militarisation of space. From Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, an article on endowed newspapers: A solution to the industry’s problems? From Slate, three articles on Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! From Psychiatric Times, an article on sexual impulsivity disorders as psychiatric "orphans". From New Statesman, a special issue on God. More on Experiments in Ethics by Kwame Anthony Appiah.
1:00PM
FEB 4 2008
Who’s been sleeping in your head?
Martin Feldstein (Harvard): Designing Institutions to Deal with Terrorism. Dahlia Lithwick on doing away with the legislative fiction of the terrorist alarm clock. How democracy produced a monster: What happened in Germany in 1933 reminds us of the need for cooperation to restrain potential “mad dogs” in world politics before they are dangerous enough to bite; and isn’t it time to send a message to Germany’s children — and everyone else’s — that will help them to stand up against present evils as well as mourning past ones? Do all companies have to be evil? An article on Enron, Google and the evolutionary psychology of corporate environments. From The Nation, a look at why Obama is the left's best chance to take back the country (and more). To understand Obama, understand this: The man is Hawaiian. Matt Welch on the unlikely comeback of John McCain, Maverick warmonger. To celebrate Darwin's 199th birthday, scientific commentators explain what they’d like to say to him round the supper table. From TLS, a review of books on China. A statesman without borders: Can Bernard Kouchner, a 60-something, high-energy, danger-loving doctor turned foreign minister, make France a global player again? A review of Who's Been Sleeping in Your Head? The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies by Brett Kahr. Amazing Racism: A study that shows the true stupidity of discrimination.
9:00AM
FEB 4 2008
Life’s too f*ing short
From Political Science Quarterly, Jeffrey M. Cavanaugh (Miss. State): From the ‘‘Red Juggernaut’’ to Iraqi WMD: Threat Inflation and How It Succeeds in the United States. Back to school: It is difficult to know whether it is a drug itself or a drug culture that attracts certain people to certain substances. More and more on Top Tips for Girls by Kate Reardon and Life's too F*ing Short by Janet Street-Porter. From 21C Magazine, a look at how panopticism is slowly subjugating the social world that we all call the 21st century. From National Journal, forget any ideas about brokered conventions; the GOP and Democratic contests are going to be won on the front lines of the primary states. A Western split within Christianity? The real scandal was the way Benedict's anti-rationalism was warmly received by so many intellectuals. Where is the love: Students eschew campus romance. Susan Faludi reviews Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary Clinton. Child-man in the Promised Land: Today’s single young men hang out in a hormonal limbo between adolescence and adulthood. A review of Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion by Francisco Ayala. A review of Thank You For Arguing by Jay Heinrichs. From the Phyllis Schlafly Report, a look at the liberal plans to subvert the U.S. Constitution. From Esquire, an essay on The Worst Building in the History of Mankind.
