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Richard Bronk in a Nutshell

Romantic Economist Richard Bronk is the featured contributor on brainy blog Rorotoko, writing about the limitations of economics, and ways to work through them. Writes Bronk: The 2007-9 financial crisis...

Richard Bronk | 22 May 2009

FBF Today 5-22

Don’t forget: Free Book Friday is today, May 22 12:30, TriBeCa park. CC to Bob Dylan? Oh yes. Read More ?

22 May 2009

Free Book Friday 5-22!

Tribeca Park is the place. Free ARCs abound. 12:30, Friday, May 22. Meet us in the park for a sampling of free Advanced Reader Copies. We’ll have a few different books, among them The Cambridge Companion...

21 May 2009

A New Face in the Neighbourhood

I break my American spelling rule for our lovely Pamela Robinson, Cambridge Canada Rep Quite a few years ago, when I was young, slim, and could easily lift boxes, I worked for the Classics Bookshop chain,...

20 May 2009

Ruth Padel is Oxford Poetry Professor

Great-great granddaughter of Charles Darwin Ruth Padel has been named Professor of Poetry at Oxford. She is the first woman to hold the post in its 301-year history. UPDATE: It seems that she has stepped...

18 May 2009

The White Horse at Ebbsfleet

A controversial giant statue of a White Horse by sculptor Max Wallinger is soon to be erected at the Ebbsfleet station in southern England, the UK’s new gateway to continental Europe for Eurostar high-speed...

Pita Kelekna | 18 May 2009

Al-Qaida Today

A Movement at the Crossroads Writing for Open Democracy, The Far Enemy author Fawaz Gerges outlines public opinion polls from Muslim communities around the world to show how popular sentiment has shifted...

Fawaz Gerges | 15 May 2009

Page 99 Test: The Fisherman’s Cause

America Reads applies the Page 99 Test to Christopher Magra’s The Fisherman’s Cause, an exploration of the relationship between commercial fishing and the American Revolution. Read More ?

15 May 2009

Review of Boonin’s Problem of Punishment

Metapsychology Online Reviews just posted an interesting review of Boonin’s The Problem of Punishment. Read More ?

14 May 2009

Recreating virginity in Iran

Janet Afary’s latest article in The Guardian finds an intriguing trend that adds another dimension to her suspicion that a “sexual revolution” may be on the way for Iran. Hymenoplasty,...

Janet Afary | 13 May 2009

X. Efficient Equine Transport

From Han China to the Industrial Era Pita Kelekna In the fourth millennium BC, yoke harnessing was originally designed for paired bovid draft. Also known as throat-and-girth, this mode of harnessing was...

Pita Kelekna | 11 May 2009

The Torture Debate: Disbar the Lawyers?

An editorial in the New York Times today calls for the Obama administration to “[move] toward some accountability for the Bush administration lawyers who justified torture.” The lawyers, it...

7 May 2009