online archive
5:00PM
JUN 18 2008
We’re all populists now
From IHE, is Hyde Park the new Cambridge (for mocking liberal academics)? From American, what if students could have investors pay their college bills in return for a set percentage of their future income? Rupert Murdoch wants his Wall Street Journal to displace The New York Times as the world’s paper of record; his ambitions could be good news for the newspaper industry— or another nail in the coffin of serious journalism (and is the Journal getting better?) The new museum of journalism only serves to highlight how the industry has failed to fully adapt to the digital age. More on Sovereignty: God, State, and Self by Jean Elshtain. A review of Hippies of the Religious Right: From the Counterculture of Jerry Garcia to the Subculture of Jerry Falwell by Preston Shires. A review of God's Own Country: Religion and Politics in the USA by Stephen Bates. Darwinists for Jesus: Can faith in evolution spiritually edify mankind? Let’s declare a truce in the Culture War: Why are believers and atheists still bickering? A review of Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age by Larry Bartels. Just how stupid are we? We're all populists now, and that's unfortunate. Are voters more divided than ever? Morris Fiorina investigates. What leftists left out: Old left and new left had a lot of vision but never quite envisioned how to communicate with each other.
1:00PM
JUN 18 2008
What we buy and who we are
From New York, a cover story on the fall and rise of Hillary Clinton; Wall Street is in the midst of its biggest, ugliest, worst round of layoffs in decades; and hedge-fund manager David Einhorn believes his public attack on Lehman Brothers wasn’t just about making money — so what was it about? A review of The Delighted States: A Book of Novels, Romances, & Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, & Accompanied by Maps, Portraits, Squiggles, Illustrations, & a Variety of Helpful Indexes by Adam Thirlwell. How do you truly split domestic duties? Spouses who are determined to adhere to “equally shared parenting” do it minute by minute. From The New Yorker, an article on the influence of Hugo Chavez; James Wood reviews Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen; and John Updike reviews Ethan Canin’s America America. Janine Armin reviews Pure War by Paul Virilio and Sylvere Lotringer. A review of Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are by Rob Walker. A review of Are We There Yet?: The Golden Age of American Family Vacations by Susan Sessions Rugh. A review of The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds by Marilyn Yalom. An interview with Steven Pinker, evolutionary man.
9:00AM
JUN 18 2008
Mathematical formulas create reality
A new issue of Guernica is out. From Dissent, a review of books on mercenaries and markets; Judith Walzer on The Breakthrough: Feminism and literary criticism; an article on a Southern strategy for unions; and an article on the Supreme Court, missing in action. Is there any hope for the UN to do good? Shmuel Rosner and Adam LeBor debate. A review of Creating the National Security State: A History of the Law That Transformed America by Douglas T. Stuart. So you think you can dance? PET scans reveal your brain's inner choreography. Is the universe actually made of math? Max Tegmark says mathematical formulas create reality. James Gibbons reviews Trauma by Patrick McGrath. Michael Dirda on James Bond as archetype: Yes, he's suave, confident, and charismatic — but what really makes every man want to be 007 is that he's dangerous. From FP, here are five reasons to love $4 gas; an interview with Marwan Muasher on the twilight of the Arab moderates; and an article on the myth of moderate Islam. Enjoy a nice glass of Australian Chardonnay? Global warming could change the way you drink. How does one become a Master of Wine? Bruce Palling, an amateur wine buff, takes a class to find out. Joel Stein on the language of wine snobbery. Wine Drinkers of the World, Unite: You have nothing to lose but inflated bills and interrupted anecdotes.
