New York Doormen a Varied Group - NYTimes.com
Shedding some light on the sometimes peculiar profession of doormen (or doorwomen) in New York..
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/nyregion/22doormen.html?hpRenaissance Pundit's Posterous |
Confronting The Beautiful Mess of Adult Life |
Shedding some light on the sometimes peculiar profession of doormen (or doorwomen) in New York..
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/nyregion/22doormen.html?hpSome thoughts and insight into David Remnick's new Obama bio, "The Bridge." The author here also spent time in Hawaii as an African- American in Hawaii, and thus adds interesting points about what forces were likely at work in young Obama's head when he was crafting his identity, as he was to a large degree isolated from the racial overtones at play for his future wife in Princeton, for instance.
Worth a read. http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100416/REVIEW/704159980A profound, timely and cutting insight into how to wage productive counterinsurgency, in light of both the tools of social science and the limitations of overextending said "science" beyond it's immediately useful, small-scale context. In short, the author concludes rightly that counterinsurgency is never quick and dirty, but mostly long, bloody, and often by the seat of the pants.
Finally, a sober and refreshingly non-over-specialized approach to an object of critical importance in our times. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/04/26/100426crbo_books_leman...Never thought deliberate persuasion could go beyond memes to drive the evolution of morals, LOL. A thought-provoking elaboration on what's missin from the discourse, mainly a rational approach to what influences our rhetorical moral fibre with age. Travel, exposure to new people and ideas are arguably at least as powerful as genetic factors and that eternally damnable foil, human nature.
Your thoughts on the subject? http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7288/full/464490a.htmlSome interesting observations on E.M. Forster and his life and writing, as reflected by the people who admire and by those who loathe his sensibilities.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/passage-forster?nopager=1Great fiction-based insight into the phenomemon of the queue in Soviet Russia, illuminating the quintessential social space in said context. Definitely worth a read.
http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/017_01/5371
It's definitely a mystery (outside of the obvious thrill of being with a brilliant and interesting man) why Norris Church Mailer stayed with Mailer despite his womanizing, self-centered ways, and for so long. Nevertheless, hers is a brilliant story, in it's own right.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/books/review/Senior-t.html?hpOn the conflicting attitudes of Americans about thrift, and where the anti-thrift, consumerist craze has gotten us...
http://wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&essay_id=543510Illuminating essay in the rise of soft paternalism, and the reasons for why we should be concerned about where the movement is making inroads on all levels of government and policy circles...
http://www.cato-unbound.org/2010/04/05/glen-whitman/the-rise-of-the-new-pater...