9/30 Jane Galt’s libertarian take on urban “smart growth”. (Via Marginal Revolution.)
9/29 In response to the worshipful treatment in The Motorcycle Diaries, Paul Berman reminds us that Che Guevera was a murderer and a totalitarian.
9/28 Weirdly fun photos and commentary from the
How Berkeley Can You Be? parade. (Via InstaPundit.)
9/27 Thomas Sowell on
injured ethnic pride as a factor in fostering Arab anti-Westernism. (Thanks to Michelle for the link.)
9/25 Economist Lawrence Reed explains
the real causes of the Great Depression. (Thanks to Jeff L. at SOLO for the link.)
9/23 Michael Newberry initiates a discussion on Immanuel Kant’s concept of the sublime in art. And The New York Review of Books covers the recent
renaissance in representational drawing. (Thanks to Michael for the link.)
9/22 Philosopher Simon Blackburn’s elegant article on Richard Rorty’s postmodernism. (Thanks to Matt for the link.)
9/21 So, you’ve always wondered, What do economists think about sex?
9/20 Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria on Hating America. And historian Keith Windschuttle reviews The Anti-Chomsky Reader, a collection of essays that assesses Noam Chomsky’s career in linguistics and as a political commentator.
9/18 The Royal Society of Chemistry’s fascinating timeline of science from the Big Bang to Archimedes to Copernicus to Watson & Crick and beyond. (Thanks to www.codebreaker.co.za for the link.) And on a lighter note, CNN asks: Who are the world’s best scientists, anyways?
9/17 Alexandra York’s new novel, Crosspoints: A Novel of Choice.
9/16 A panel of experts addresses the question:
Can Islam reform? Ziauddin Sardar reports on soul-searching in the Islamic world after 9/11. And check out The Free Muslim Coalition against Terrorism’s positions on the key issues.
9/15 The achievements of David Sarnoff, the business executive who perhaps more than any other promoted the electronic revolution of the 20th century. Also: philosopher Andrew Bernstein on The Inventive Age in American history. (Thanks to Michelle for the link.)
9/14 Psychologist Robert Campbell covers this past summer’s
Positive Psychology Conference in Washington, D.C.
9/13 Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s one hundred most powerful women. And Mary Katharine Ham has a few words for those compassionate souls who want to help her out because she’s only a girl. (Thanks to the Independent Women’s Forum for the link.)
9/11 Roger Donway defends Frank Quattrone, the innovative Silicon Valley investment banker and now the latest scapegoat of anti-Wall-Street hysteria.
9/10 The Sokal Hoax was brilliant – but how about the Ern Malley Poetry Hoax – the original joke on pretentious postmodernism? (Thanks to Alan for the link.)
9/9 Anja Hartleb defends free speech in colleges and universities: Against speech codes.
9/8 Virginia Murr on the philosopher of Islamist terrorism: Sayyid Qutb, Islamism, and Al Qaeda.
9/7 Natalie Angier reviews
The End of Faith, Sam Harris’s polemic on the dangers of religious toleration. (Requires free login at The New York Times. Thanks to Tom S. of the New Intellectual Forum for the link.)
9/6 Professor Bryan Caplan’s sobering Museum of Communism.
9/3 Ph.D. student Shawn Klein sorts out the moral and legal status of animals.
9/2 Reason’s Ron Bailey on doubling life expectancies. (So now I’m planning on 250 years.)
9/1 Who is your ideal presidential candidate? And here is a humorous comparison of the candidacies of George Bush and John Kerry. Also: a new book asks, Who were the greatest American presidents? Check out historian Paul Johnson on the Clinton presidency (ranked 24th), and the essays on Presidents Buchanan (ranked 39th), Lincoln (ranked 2nd), and Kennedy (ranked 18th). Update: Professor David Mayer’s ranking of American presidents.