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Interns Blog: Death Lurks in Crisp White Stacks

Christopher Zingaro The only certainty for summer interns is that paperwork and paper cuts await us. They lurk about every filing cabinet and alongside each fresh stack of paper from the printer. Beware. With...

23 Jun 2009

Bob Dylan, Capitalism and the Religious Right

No Faith in the Market – Part I Anne Ream One likes to believe that Bob Dylan was being ironic, not prophetic. But as is the case with most things Dylan, one is never sure. The year was 1967 and...

Anne Ream | 22 Jun 2009

Astronomy.com on Mullaney & Tirion

Gerald Mullaney and Wil Tirion just published the splendid Cambridge Double Star Atlas, and Astronomy.com posted their review today. And yes, the review is very nice. Thanks for the kind words, Michael! Read More ?

18 Jun 2009

Inside Higher Ed Reviews Norwood

Stephen Norwood’s The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower was reviewed yesterday at Inside Higher Ed: In an interview, Norwood describes university leaders as indifferent to evidence of a barbaric regime...

18 Jun 2009

Can tech bring the country doctor to the city?

Stephanie Harnett It may seem that the doctors of New York today are a far cry from the old-fashioned country doctors of mid-century Middle America. Or are they? The New York Times this week has pointed...

18 Jun 2009

Bjørn Lomborg: Stop Scaring the Kids!

Bjørn Lomborg, writing for the Guardian, warns of Global Warming exaggeration. An argument he’s been making for a while, yes, but here, he points to terrified children, convinced that the world...

Bjørn Lomborg | 17 Jun 2009

New White Nationalism

On The Huffington Post, Carol Swain shares an excerpt from her book, The New White Nationalism in America. Read More ?

17 Jun 2009

Interns Blog: The Job Search

I remember when, a bushy-tailed 25-year-old, I came to New York and began a job search. Well, back up a bit, I had been searching for a job in NY for 3 months prior to my move, with no success. Waiting...

17 Jun 2009

The Same-Sex Future

David Cole, writing for the New York Review of Books, looks at several books on the same-sex marriage debate. Among them is Cambridge author Evan Gerstmann’s Same Sex Marriage and the Constitution....

16 Jun 2009

Mr. Sedaris, will you sign my Kindle?

“Mr. Sedaris, will you sign my Kindle?” E-readers may not spell the end of book signings just yet. On the NY Times, an article about ebook signings. What did David Sedaris write? “This...

16 Jun 2009

Janet Afary on a Divided Iran

With calls for inquiry over Iran’s election results, The New York Review of Books looks at 3 books that examine divisions in Iran, among them, Janet Afary’s Sexual Politics in Modern Iran. ~...

15 Jun 2009

Rorotoko: Peter Conn’s ‘American 1930s’

Brainy wonderblog rorotoko.com offered The American 1930s author Peter Conn their front page today, and he happily obliged with his piece Against the Simplification of History. ~ ~ ~ My chief purpose is...

12 Jun 2009