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This week’s articles of note
“Neurocriticism and neurocapitalism,” PopMatters, by Rob Horning “Give it a rest, genius: what the new success books don’t tell you about achievement,” Slate, by Ann Hulbert “Interview with Louis Menand,” Big Think “Weighing the benefits and costs of offshore drilling,” Reason, by Ronald Bailey “Curbing risk on Wall Street,” National Affairs, by Oliver Hart and Luigi Zingales […]
This week’s articles of note
“Hardly existential: thinking rationally about terrorism,” Foreign Affairs, by John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart “Risk: the story of America’s greatest idea,” Slate, by John Dickerson “The revenge of the brands”, (Review of No Logo: 10th Anniversary Edition, by Naomi Klein), Reason, by Andrew Potter “Cisco’s big bet on New Songdo: creating cities from scratch,” […]
This week’s articles of note
“Renewing U.S. competitiveness and innovation,” Real Clear Markets, by Jim McNerney “When the starved beast bites back,” The New Republic, by Noam Scheiber “Equal Pay Day reality check,” The American, by Christina Hoff Sommers “Nudges gone wrong,” Slate, by Ray Fisman “How immigration crackdowns backfire,” Reason, by Steve Chapman “Play’s the thing,” (Review of The […]
This week’s articles of note
“The comeback country,” Newsweek, by Daniel Gross “Nudge, nudge, wink, wink: behavioral economics – the governing theory of Obama’s nanny state,” Weekly Standard, by Andrew Ferguson “On closing the culture gap,” Seed, by Paul Ehrlich “Everything is contagious: has a plague of social illness struck mankind?” Slate, by Dave Johns “After the flood: the creator of […]
This week’s articles of note
“Time to rebalance: special report on America’s economy,” The Economist, by Greg Ip “Building a green economy,” New York Times Magazine, by Paul Krugman “Up from slavery,” Reason, by David Boaz “Making the rest of the world crazy,” (Review of Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche, by Ethan Watters), Boston Globe, by […]
On vacation this week…
… will return on Monday, April 5th
This week’s articles of note
“Counterfactual: a curious history of the CIA’s secret interrogation program,” The New Yorker, by Jane Mayer “Bush, Obama and the intellectuals,” National Affairs, by Tevi Troy “Heading off the next financial crisis,” The New York Times Magazine, by David Leonhardt “Criticising gays: a secular form of blasphemy?” spiked, by Wendy Kaminer “Oh, the humanities! What […]
This week’s articles of note
“The real danger of debt,” Foreign Policy, by Richard A. Posner “Midwest success stories,” New Geography, by Aaron M. Renn “Saviors & sovereigns: the rise and fall of humanitarianism,” World Affairs, by Mark Mazower “Who’s still biased?” The Boston Globe, by Drake Bennett “How not to prosecute a sexting case,” Slate, by Emily Bazelon
This week’s articles of note
“Obama’s lost year,” The New Yorker, by George Packer [abstract; full article requires subscription] “An exceptional debate,” National Review, by Richard Lowry and Ramesh Ponnuru “Man versus Afghanistan,” The Atlantic, by Robert D. Kaplan “China’s economic rise is truly glorious,” Real Clear Markets, by John Tamny “What is the good of the ‘examined life’? Some […]
This week’s articles of note
“Building a better teacher,” The New York Times Magazine, by Elizabeth Green “Hotheaded Emanuel may be White House voice of reason,” Washington Post, by Jason Horowitz “Undying creed: the acceleration of our exceptionalism,” World Affairs, by Joel Kotkin “What happened to New York’s moxie?” Foreign Policy, by James Traub “Soul music,” The American, by Roger […]