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This week’s articles of note
“Demography vs. geography: understanding the political future,” The American, by Joel Kotkin “‘People want to be part of the story,'” Financial Times. Simon Schama interviews Arianna Huffington “Jamie Dimon: America’s least-hated banker,” The New York Times Magazine, by Roger Lowenstein “The crisis of the American intellectual,” The American Interest, by Walter Russell Mead “What I’ve […]
This week’s articles of note
“What does it mean to be a liberal today?” The Independent. Sarah Boyes interviews Frank Furedi “Things fall apart,” The American Interest, by Walter Russell Mead “The doom boom: religious roots of environmental Armageddon,” Chronicle of Higher Education, by Michael Ruse “Africa needs aid, not flawed theories,” Wall Street Journal, by Bill Gates; and “Africa […]
This week’s articles of note
“A house that Murdoch bought,” The National Interest, by Conrad Black [Review of three books on the newspaper industry] “What good is Wall Street?” The New Yorker, by John Cassidy “Chomsky: ‘The business elites… are instinctive Marxists,'” truthout, by Keane Bhatt “The answer is no,” New York Magazine, by Jason Zengerle [Profile of New Jersey […]
A liberal contempt for the land of the free
For all the praise heaped on Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel Freedom, it actually reveals the people-hating, anti-freedom essence of the modern liberal mindset. Read my review, in the spiked review of books, here.
This week’s articles of note
“The future of free speech,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, by Tim Wu “What sparked the Tea Party movement,” National Journal, by Michael Hirsh “The Palin network,” The New York Times Magazine, by Robert Draper “Start-up city,” City Journal, by Edward L. Glaeser “Neuroeconomics: in Oxytocin we trust,” Big Think, by John Cookson “Students are […]
This week’s articles of note
“Live by the movement, die by the movement,” The New Republic, by Sean Wilentz “Inside the Gates Foundation,” Financial Times, by Gideon Rachman “Let’s banish nudges and bans,” Huffington Post, by Alan Miller “Dirty coal, clean future,” The Atlantic, by James Fallows “My endless New York,” New York Times, by Tony Judt “Life, liberty and the […]
This week’s articles of note
“Heartland headache,” National Journal, by Ronald Brownstein “The myth of charter schools,” The New York Review of Books, by Diane Ravitch [review of the film Waiting for “Superman”] “Liberal paternalism gets public and private the wrong way around,” Reuters, by Frank Furedi “Conflict or cooperation? Three visions revisited,” Foreign Affairs, by Richard K. Betts “American […]
This week’s articles of note
“‘Stranger Danger’ and the decline of Halloween,” Wall Street Journal, by Lenore Skenazy “Nudge the vote,” The New York Times Magazine, by Sasha Issenberg “Obama and the mid-terms: how did it come to this?” The Economist “Lunch with the FT: Bill Gates”, Financial Times, by Gideon Rachman “Overdrive: who really rescued General Motors?” The New Yorker, […]
This week’s articles of note
“How to restore the American Dream,” Time, by Fareed Zakaria “Handoff, or fumble: how consumer psychology will determine the fate of our economic recovery,” The New Republic, by Noam Scheiber “Desert storm,” The New Yorker, by Nicholas Lemann [on Harry Reid’s battle to retain his Senate seat] “The empathy deficit,” The Boston Globe, by Keith […]
This week’s articles of note
“The education of a President,” The New York Times Magazine, by Peter Baker “Confounding fathers: the Tea Party’s Cold War roots,” The New Yorker, by Sean Wilentz “Think again: global aging,” Foreign Policy, by Phillip Longman “No more arcs: is the West officially over?” The New Republic, by Rochelle Gurstein “How marriage survives,” Brookings, by […]