online archive
5:00PM
MAR 11 2008
Life without showers is unimaginable
From Slate, an article on Big Business's Big Term: Victories for the Chamber of Commerce at the Supreme Court. By Doug Kendall. From The New York Observer, goodbye Mad Dog, hello Daddy-O: David Carey is Conde Nast’s new business paradigm. A review of Twilight War: The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance by Mike Moore. Stagflation is back — and it's even worse than you feared. Here's the latest research: Your brain on Krispy Kremes. Could a coffee maker be worth $11,000? How the Clover is changing the way we think about coffee. Alan Dershowitz on worshippers of death. Zealots of our time: More on Jacob Heilbrunn's They Knew They Were Right. More on The Craftsman by Richard Sennett. An interview with David Rieff, author of Swimming in a Sea of Death. A look at 7 insane conspiracies that actually happened. From The Symptom, Alain Badiou on Philosophy as Biography and Some Remarks Concerning Marcel Duchamp. Slaves in the Attic: An excerpt from Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. An unsanitised history of washing: To modern Westerners life without showers is unimaginable, but mankind somehow survived before the advent of soap and deodorants. From BBC Magazine, a look at the whitest place in England; and children are growing up too fast, but was childhood ever innocent?
1:00PM
MAR 11 2008
How far they have travelled
From Esquire, Thomas P.M. Barnett on Admiral William "Fox" Fallon, the man between war and peace. How to swim against the current: People are wriggling free of the fetters of corporate culture. How to misread Robbe-Grillet: Jonathan Meades on the supreme novelist of France's trente glorieuses. From nthposition, here is the urban legend: the miscreant shooter misinterprets The Catcher in the Rye; and more on Modernism by Peter Gay. Rise of the super-mayor: How mayors of American cities are coping with suburban growth. A review of Richard M. Cook’s Alfred Kazin: A Biography. A review of Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films by Roz Kaveney. How far they have travelled: A Turkish-based movement, which sounds more reasonable than most of its rivals, is vying to be recognised as the world's leading Muslim network. Feel safer now? Most anti-terrorist spending is wasteful, claims a new study. More on Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism by Michael Burleigh. The lowdown on God's showdown: Many evangelical Christians tremble with excitement at the thought that they are the "last generation" and "Jesus is due to return soon". From Smithsonian, from bebop to hip-hop, nobody alive has done more for American music than Quincy Jones. A review of Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration With Zionism, 1917-1948 by Hillel Cohen.
9:00AM
MAR 11 2008
A sword among lions
The real problem with Power: In an ideal world, politicians and their advisers would be able to talk openly about their real thoughts and admit to doubts, but it would also be politically impossible. A review of The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the fight against AIDS by Helen Epstein. A review of The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris. Boys’ Club 2.0: The media is obsessed with boy geek geniuses, but where are the women? From Wired, an article on the myth of the "transparent society". A look at the the extent to which some people will sacrifice personal gain to benefit the wider public. A review of Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings. From The Economist, a special section on technology, including an article on the battle for Wikipedia's soul. Take a Dipso like You: Kingsley Amis’s advice on all matters alcoholic may not be helpful, but it is always lively. An excerpt from In Honor of Fadime: Murder and Shame by Unni Wikan. From TLS, historian of the future: An intellectual, a realist and an optimist, E. H. Carr respected power over all illusions of liberal morality; and dominant on page and stage: but is Shakespeare, the greatest writer in the English language, primarily a poet or a dramatist? Move over Galileo, it's Science 2.0: A look at how the Internet is changing the scientific method.
