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Nat Hentoff of the Village Voice is one of the most outspoken critics of the Bush Administration. In his June 24 column, he picks up a couple Cambridge law titles that hammer home Bush’s legal sidestepping. “In a June 6 letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey—largely ignored by a press immersed in the future of […]
Read MoreRecent news media has swarmed over the high costs of Texas’ raid on the FLDS Zion ranch, and on placing hundreds of children in foster homes. What are the real costs, however? Crunch the numbers, says Marci Hamilton. “Recently, I debated Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff on NPR about his office’s failure to vigorously prosecute […]
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UPDATE 7-25: Check out this week’s letter: Darwin Builds a Fort! Charles Darwin was a typical teenager. He thought that some of his teachers were full of crap, and wasn’t afraid to say so (at least to his sister). This letter from Charles to his sister Caroline has a few choice words for a professor […]
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What is it, you ask? It’s one of my personal favorites. It’s apologizing, but not really. In fact, it’s apologizing for someone else instead of for your own ridiculous behavior. “I’m sorry you feel that way.” (About my inability to hold a passing interest in our discussion) “I’m sorry that things just didn’t work out.” […]
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Further to last week’s Washington Times article about Seduced by Secrets, Harvard Magazine‘s own piece about Makcrakis and her research gives us a glimpse at the woman behind the research behind the book. Escape plans and all! The Seduction of Snooping A recording device hidden in an ashtray. A camera concealed inside a pen, an […]
Read MoreThis week — Sweden: the Colonial Power Neil Kent’s Swedish History Smorgasboard brings us tidbits and snippets about a country that many Americans, myself included, sadly know little about. Here in New York, we have Dutch and English street names, and a flag adapted from the Netherlands’. I grew up in Pennsylvania, surrounded by the […]
Read MoreDarwin on the Isle of Wight This week in Darwin’s correspondence: June 18, 1858, 150 years ago — Darwin writes to Charles Lyell from the Isle of Wight, a little island 3 miles from the South coast of England. This letter comes from Cambridge University’s Darwin Correspondence Project. This was no vacation. On June 18, […]
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WUIS program Quiddity, the radio-arm of the literary magazine, devotes an episode to war poetry and soldier-poets. We’ve been reading our share of war poetry here with James Winn and The Poetry of War, but the brilliant thing about the medium is to hear poets reading, speaking and singing their works and the extra impact […]
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