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Monthly Archives: October 2008

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  • 31 Oct 2008

    What to Read on Halloween?

    I’m sorry to say, but our Records of the Salem Witch Trials (yes, ALL of the legal documents!) won’t be out for a couple more months. It’s a big book, but done right. We do, however, have a fully unauthorized biography of Satan. This issue of New York Review of Books reviewed our recently published […]

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  • 30 Oct 2008
    Ruth Wajnryb

    A Place for “Ruthful”

    Ruth Wajnryb is WORDS columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald. Her new book, You Know What I Mean? plumbs the depths of language, and the shifty, slippery meanings of our words. Here, a meditation on her own first name. Although you probably have less reason than some to look up ‘ruth’ in the dictionary, doing […]

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  • 29 Oct 2008
    Shahn Majid

    Truth, Symmetry, and Quantum Computers

    If the real world, at its base, is quantum, then should we not think with quantum logic? Shahn Majid discusses how the notion of quantum symmetry coming out of modern ideas on space and time could provide clues to the workings of a truly quantum computer. Have you ever sat through a really boring flow […]

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  • 28 Oct 2008

    Commentary Reviews After Bush

    Writing for Commentary, Joshua Muravchik reviewed Tim Lynch and Rob Singh’s After Bush in this month’s issue. The End of the Beginning After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy GEORGE W. BUSH has been one of the most reviled of recent Presidents, and he has poll ratings to match. But with the […]

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  • 27 Oct 2008

    David Friedman on Marketplace of Ideas

    Future Imperfect author David Friedman was recently interviewed on KCSB Santa Barbara’s The Marketplace of Ideas. Have a listen! Lew McCreary, writing for Harvard Business review, recently commented on Future Imperfect. ‘We want the world to be orderly, but too often it is simply a mess. Friedman, a law professor, gleefully sorts out a host […]

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  • 27 Oct 2008

    Loads of Author Events

    We have several busy authors speaking at events this week. Will you be in NY or DC? Give your brain the attention it deserves and stop by! Marci Hamilton – author of Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect its Children Marci is the keynote speaker for the SNAP Press conference backing Statutes of […]

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  • 23 Oct 2008

    With Powell Endorsement, Bush Foreign Policy Continues

    Timothy Lynch The recent endorsement of Barack Obama by Colin Powell is consequential for two reasons. First, it indicates that Obama has survived the attacks on his past associations and leftist provenance, made by authors such as Jerome Corsi, and is actually now a rather more mainstream foreign policy candidate than many had anticipated. Indeed, […]

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  • 22 Oct 2008
    Susan Pinkard

    The Surprising Provenance of French Champagne

    Nothing is more French than sparkling champagne, you say? Well, not exactly. Although the wine itself comes from the province of Champagne, just to the east of Paris, the idea that a glass of champagne is supposed to be bubbly is not itself French in origin. In fact, it’s English.

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