online archive
5:00PM
MAR 6 2008
Pushing polyamory to its tipping point
Harvard’s Ben Olken, 32, studies the economics of bribery and assassination in developing nations. Juan Cole on Barack Hussein Obama, Omar Bradley, Benjamin Franklin and other Semitically-named American heroes. James Surowiecki on the trouble with homes. A review of The Supreme Court: An Essential History by Peter Charles Hoffer. On YouTube, nothing's too banal; the website is awash in video, few interesting. A review of On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman. From City Journal, Christopher Hitchens on prisoner of shelves. From Psychology Today, an interview with Karim Rashid, author of Design Your Self. An interview with the Institute for Justice's Chip Mellor on campaign-finance reform, eminent-domain abuse, and licensing laws gone wild. A review of Venus Khoury-Ghata’s Nettles. A review of The Postmodern Imagination of Russell Kirk by Gerald Russello (and more). Regina Lynn on how the Internet is pushing polyamory to its tipping point. The first chapter from The Red Queen among Organizations: How Competitiveness Evolves by William Barnett. The introduction to Beyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Its Astonishing Implications for Our Future by Jeffrey Bennett. A review of Desiring Arabs by Joseph A. Massad. A review of Perfumes: The Guide by Luca Turin.
1:00PM
MAR 6 2008
Turn the handkerchief into something subversive
From New Left Review, no forbidden zone in reading: Dushu and the Chinese Intelligentsia. From PopMatters, does a conservative obsession with its past threaten the originality and imagination of today's rock music? Pink Floyd's "The Wall" casts a long shadow on the genre. A review of Changing Party Coalitions: The Mystery of the Red State-Blue State Alignment by Jerry F. Hough. Joe Brewer and George Lakoff on why voters aren't motivated by a laundry list of positions on issues. More on Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All by Rose Shapiro. Leave it to the gentlemen of Victorian England to turn the handkerchief into something subversive. A review of Charles Bock’s Beautiful Children. Spencer Ackerman on the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, the "bipartisan" think tank that attacks Democrats. A review of The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by David W. Anthony. Woe to the European transplant in Washington, DC, who drives passively, eats moderately and doesn't go to church. Form First Principles, the Traditionalist counterculture: A review of Rod Dreher's Crunchy Cons. Artificial intelligence stood still for 50 years but Silicon Valley is working on presenting online data in better ways. A look at how gender differences in language appear biological.
9:00AM
MAR 6 2008
Global marketing execs agree
From Der Spiegel, a special report on how Europe lost Africa. A review of Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. A liberal goes undercover to Brave America's premiere right-wing gathering. Raising Gender: An article on children developing millisecond by millisecond. Global marketing execs agree — America's image is in the toilet; the cure? One presidential candidate has what it takes, they say, to save Brand USA. A review of War in Late Antiquity: A Social History by A.D. Lee. Digging Kunta Kinte: Does it matter if Alex Haley's character really existed? Dot-Commitment: Young entrepreneur learns ups and downs of building a Web start-up. A review of Universal Human Rights: Origins and Development by Stephen James. From New Left Review, Michael Hardt reviews Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine. A look at how Hillary think tank the Center for American Progress went for Obama. Putin’s Pariah: Is the mercurial novelist Edward Limonov the last best hope of the Russian opposition. From Slate, how do you build a public library in the age of Google? Darwin's dangerous idea: Why so much fuss over a 150-year-old theory that seems to gather more scientific support by the decade? James Wolcott on how newly published stories remind us that Donald Barthelme’s antic fiction influenced a generation of post-postmodernists.
