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Obama, Afghanistan, and American History

Writing for the History News Network, William O. Walker, author of National Security and Core Values in American History explains why, for the last century, American “security” intellectuals...

William O. Walker III | 20 Oct 2009

What Doctors are Missing

In his New York Review of Books article on the changes in medical culture, Jerome Groopman cites Stanley Reiser’s Technological Medicine. Read More ?

16 Oct 2009

Michelangelo Podcast Series #3

Part III: David In this weekly podcast series, Michelangelo expert William Wallace discusses major works of the master. Wallace’s Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times will be widely available...

William E. Wallace | 14 Oct 2009

Glenn Greenwald interviews Jonathan Weiler

Jonathan Weiler, co-author of Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics appeared in a podcast interview with Salon‘s Glenn Greenwald. The book — Authoritarianism and Polarization...

13 Oct 2009

Hacked Robots!

Questions right out of Future Imperfect are considered over at Network World with the question: “How dangerous could a hacked robot possibly be?” Read More ?

8 Oct 2009

Globalization and Human Rights

When globalization gets messy, we have a number of problems. It gets blamed for human rights violations, even while it has the potential to lift millions out of poverty. It forces us to engage governments...

7 Oct 2009

Michelangelo Podcast Series #2

Part II: St. Peter’s Pieta In this weekly podcast series, Michelangelo expert William Wallace discusses major works of the master. Wallace’s Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times...

William E. Wallace | 7 Oct 2009

Russell in graphic novel

A new graphic novel (reviewed in the Guardian) details the struggles of Bertrand Russell in striving toward mathematical and logical truth. Funny bit: In [Principia Mathematica], the authors famously take...

5 Oct 2009

Climate Change threatens national parks

A new report, reported in USA Today outlines major hazards to our national parks, with climate change presenting the greatest. The report’s data comes from Global Impacts in the United States, which...

2 Oct 2009

Lomborg: Carbon cuts likely to harm

Writing for The Washington Post, skeptical environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg discusses likely impacts of any required carbon cuts, and, crucially, the huge cost of carbon cuts versus other means of reducing...

Bjørn Lomborg | 1 Oct 2009

Michelangelo Podcast Series #1

Part I: Bacchus Art historian William Wallace discusses major works of Michelangelo’s career. This 10-part audio podcast series provides fascinating insights into the individual works of the most...

William E. Wallace | 30 Sep 2009

WSJ Five Best – Novels About Mental Disorders

Douwe Draaisma picks novels that focus on mental disorders. Draaisma is author of Disturbances of the Mind. 1. Motherless Brooklyn By Jonathan Lethem Doubleday, 1999 Now that neurologists and psychiatrists...

Douwe Draaisma | 28 Sep 2009