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