online archive
5:00PM
FEB 26 2008
What would Jesus deconstruct?
From Vanity Fair, settling down didn’t come naturally to Simon Sebag Montefiore; then he met the woman he knew he couldn’t let slip away. From The Global Spiral, a special issue on John D. Caputo's What Would Jesus Deconstruct? The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church. An interview with Sex, Science and Profits by Terence Kealey. A review of Built by Animals: The Natural History of Animal Architecture by Mike Hansell. A review of Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence by James L. Gould and Carol Grant Gould. A review of The Politics of Freedom: Taking on the Left, the Right and Threats to Our Liberties by David Boaz. Christopher Hitchens reviews On God: An Uncommon Conversation by Norman Mailer with Michael Lennon. A review of Cyrano: The Life and Legend of Cyrano de Bergerac by Ishbel Addyman. The U.S. Constitution is not democratic, and why that’s a good thing: A review of Sanford Levinson's Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong. A review of How the South Could Have Won the Civil War: The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat by Bevin Alexander. A review of Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health by David Michaels. Can the Democrats think big? Robert Kuttner wants to know.
1:00PM
FEB 26 2008
Living in visa territory
From Eurozine, living in visa territory: Countries that declare individual freedom to be the highest value decide the extent of a person's freedom on the basis of their country's political status. From Free Inquiry, Wendy Kaminer on pandering, pretending and the law; Nat Hentoff on Christianizing America; a look at why the "A" word won't go away. The human race is crossing a line: There is now one cellphone for every two humans on Earth. A review of Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J.M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust and D.W. Winnicott by Carol Mavor. Il Accuse: Bernard-Henri Levy on the rebranding of anti-Semitism. The wisdom of the chaperones: Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy. Here's a list of the world’s top social networking sites. Ten years on: it's time to count the cost of the Viagra revolution. The fact is, liberal magazines — like liberals themselves — are way too keen on being smarter than everyone else. A look at what you don't know about Dmitry Medvedev, Putin's handpicked successor. A review of Creating a World Without Poverty by Muhammad Yunus and Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail by Paul Polak. From HNN, a review of Hegemony or Empire? The Redefinition of US Power under George W. Bush; and a review of The History of Terrorism From Antiquity to Al Qaeda.
9:00AM
FEB 26 2008
We're all journalists now
From The New Humanist, a review of Villages of Vision: A Study of Strange Utopias by Gillian Darley; underlying Carl Jung's brand of radical metaphysics, claims Paul Bishop, is a deep vein of rationalism; and taking liberties: True freedom requires not wealth but faith. Here's a list of 50 crime writers to read before you die. At 50, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart looks immortal (and more). From Discover, an interview with Leon Kass, George W. Bush’s conscience. The first female research mathematician had a program to solve Fermat's Last Theorem, and it was almost lost to history. More and more on Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature. Did the Pan-African Dream die with Apartheid? After the initial euphoria, many African Americans got their hopes dashed. An excerpt from Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy by Claudia Baracchi. From Atopia, a special issue on "straits": Neoliberal rhetoric would have us believe that we are living in a borderless world of free circulation; however, the exchange of goods and of people across very real physical geographies hardly corresponds to such an image. A review of We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age by Scott Gant. The appeal of democracy, the media and America has us all hooked: What if we could replicate that for global institutions?
