online archive
5:00PM
FEB 15 2008
How to live the American dream without losing your soul
From Policy Review, an article on Our Fractured Supreme Court: The benefit of unanimity and the vanity of dissent. A review of The Persons Case: The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood by Robert J. Sharpe. From The Root, John McWhorter on Blackness: A quick and dirty primer; and how to live the American dream without losing your soul. A review of Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation by Charles Baber. The Lacanian Left does not exist: A review of The Lacanian Left: Psychoanalysis, Theory, Politics by Yannis Stavrakakis. The biology of love—not: A stripper who feels sexy gives a more tip-worthy lap dance than one who feels uncomfortable or bloated. The evolution of human sexuality is likely to involve more people having gay sex but fewer people defining themselves as gay. A review of What Would Jesus Deconstruct? by John D. Caputo. Are Americans hostile to knowledge? More on Susan Jacoby's The Age of American Unreason. In defense of Facebook: Publishers have legitimate, even compelling, reasons to not allow registrants to remove all content and information they have submitted to their websites. Cryonics — freezing the dead with the hope of reviving them — has always been a long shot, but advances mean it could be coming a little closer. A look at how Creationists peer-review their "academic" scholarship.
1:00PM
FEB 15 2008
There are no good bets against globalization
From Reason, a review of Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies by M. Stanton Evans. Roid Rage: A look at what the professional sports world doesn't get about Washington. George Milhous Bush: In which our current president tries to finish what Richard Nixon started. The Smell of Love: Why do some people smell better to you? A look at how human body odor influences sexual attraction. Here's a Dater's Bill of Rights, a set of rules and principles that really should have been addressed by our Founding Fathers. From Policy Review, a look at why, in the long run, there are no good bets against globalization. A review of The Eccentric Billionaire: John D. MacArthur—Empire Builder, Reluctant Philanthropist, Relentless Adversary by Nancy Kriplen. Hardbrawl: Chris Matthews pulls no punches. How Obama does that thing he does: A professor of rhetoric cracks the candidate's code. Of love and other demons: The press hearts Obama, but is it toxic? It's not you, it's me: Letter from a young, hip, cynical former Obamamaniac. An article on mythbusting Canadian health care (and part 2). Journalist bites reality: How broadcast journalism is flawed in such a fundamental way that its utility as a tool for informing viewers is almost nil.
9:00AM
FEB 15 2008
A debate that actually matters
From World Affairs, George Packer on Iraq the Place vs. Iraq the Abstraction; Alan Wolfe on Academia (kind of) Goes to War: Chomsky and His Children; Paul Collier on Backbone, Berman, and Buruma: A Debate That Actually Matters; David Rieff reviews The Idea that Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World by Anne-Marie Slaughter; and Christopher Hitchens writes to the president. A look at how college applications can be too good: Admissions officers wary of slick essays. Should unmarried women in their 30s settle for the nearest available guy, even if it means entering into a loveless relationship? n interview with "Doctor of Love" Helen Fisher. Jack Goldsmith and Eric Posner on why the government may lose the Guantanamo trials, even if it wins. The fine art of cool posters: Chicago poster artist Jay Ryan explains how he translates bands’ music into art and why cute critters are crucial to the process. A review of Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon by Barbara Graziosi and Emily Greenwood. The economics of assassination might surprise you as much as they did Harvard's Ben Olken. A brief history of national suicide: The story of how Paraguay went from a wannabe Prussia to the Rodney Dangerfield of South America. Mengele in Paraguay: The Smart Set is on the jungle trail of the Nazi doctor.
