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This week’s articles of note
“Weiner, Filner: Therapy and the art of political cleansing,” Los Angeles Times, by Meghan Daum “Going for Bolingbroke,” New York Times, by Ross Douthat “The danger of Clinton fatigue,” Slate, by John Dickerson “Mitch Daniels’ gift to academic freedom,” Wall Street Journal, by Benno Schmidt “The childless city,” City Journal, by Joel Kotkin and Ali […]
This week’s articles of note
“‘Perhaps culture is now the counterculture’: a defense of the humanities,” The New Republic, by Leon Wieseltier “Western cultural suicide,” National Review, by Victor Hanson Davis “Economy needs more than tech sector,” Orange County Register, by Joel Kotkin “Philosophy isn’t dead yet,” The Guardian, by Raymond Tallis “Allegation ends coach’s career,” ESPN The Magazine, by […]
This week’s articles of note
“Jobs jobs jobs,” The American Interest, by Walter Russell Mead “Going green? Then go nuclear” Wall Street Journal, by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger “Time regained!” The New York Review of Books, by James Gleick [Review of Time Reborn: From the Crisis of Physics to the Future of the Universe by Lee Smolin] “The suicide epidemic,” Newsweek, […]
This week’s articles of note
“Boston: More like Sandy Hook than 9/11,” New Republic, by John B. Judis [Interview with Olivier Roy] “More than dependency,” National Review, by Yuval Levin “Reinhart, Rogoff, and how the macroeconomic sausage is made,” Harvard Business Review, by Justin Fox “The many faces of neo-Marxism,” The National Interest, by Walter Laqueur “Relationships are more important […]
This week’s articles of note
“Woodward at war,” Politico, by Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei “To create growth, unleash the invisible foot,” Reuters, by Reihan Salam “America’s red state growth corridors,” Wall Street Journal, by Joel Kotkin “Before greed: Americans didn’t always yearn for riches,” Boston Review, by Richard White “The new mommy wars,” USA Today, by Joanne Bamberger “Worried […]
This week’s articles of note
“Why Obama is giving up on right-leaning whites,” National Journal, by Ronald Brownstein “My plan to fix the world’s biggest problems,” Wall Street Journal, by Bill Gates “How the South will rise to power again,” Forbes, by Joel Kotkin “Why Apple is losing its aura,” Fast Company, by Bruce Nussbaum “Is Dr. Oz doing more […]
This week’s articles of note
“Go for the throat!: Why if he wants to transform American politics, Obama must declare war on the Republican party,” Slate, by John Dickerson [plus, read Dickerson’s response to his critics] “The liberal hour,” New York Times, by Ross Douthat “Liberalism and freedom,” Washington Monthly, by Ed Kilgore “Futuristic blues,” The American Interest, by Walter Russell Mead […]
This week’s articles of note
“Let’s repeal the Second Amendment,” Vanity Fair, by Kurt Eichenwald “Spengler’s ominous prophecy,” National Affairs, by Robert W. Merry “After the fiscal cliff: what do Democrats want?” The Daily Beast, by Megan McArdle “California’s blue utopia,” New Geography, by Robert J. Cristiano “The new feminism,” Dissent, by Sarah Leonard [Special issue devoted to the topic] […]
2012’s best articles
Here are my top 10 articles for the year (in alphabetical order by the author’s last name): “Who killed the liberal arts?” The Weekly Standard, by Joseph Epstein “In nothing we trust,” National Journal, by Ron Fournier and Sophie Quinton “The future of history: can liberal democracy survive the decline of the middle class?” Foreign […]
This week’s articles of note
“No flying cars, but the future is bright,” Bloomberg, by Virginia Postrel “Has fiction lost its faith?” New Yort Times Book Review, by Paul Elie “Why innovation won’t save us,” Wall Street Journal, by Robert J. Gordon “Beware the baby bust generation,” Boston Globe, by Jeff Jacoby “The great swindle,” Aeon, by Roger Scruton “The […]