24
Mar
Year Two
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Professors know the difference between practice and theory-especially when it comes to dating. Tony Judt knew the rules-he read Foucault! What made him thinks he could get away with it?
By Tony Judt
http://blogs.nybooks.com/post/441569341/girls-girls-girls
Checkov at 150 and the Russian Winter’s Longest Road:
Anton Checkov took a trip to “hell” in 1890, Sukhalin Island. A sadistic penal colony located closer to Japan than Russia. Why did Checkov go? what did he learn?
By Robert Fulford
http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=2713317
Remebering Haiti:
“A good anthropologist is, among other things, one who knows how to apologize locally”
By Sidney W. Mintz
http://bostonreview.net/BR35.2/mintz.php
Inside Man:
An insightful profile of Timothy Geithner.
By Joshua Green
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/04/inside-man/7992
Autopia: Futuristic Pod Car Combines GM Vision, Segway Practicality:
Can this concept help stop urban congestion? And at the least the Japanese will like it.
By Stuart Schwartzapfel
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/03/general-motors-en-v/
An Atheist Meets the Masters of the Universe:
A.J. Ayer the great atheist professor of logic at Oxford-died twice! The first time he experienced God, and then discreetly told a doctor of his . Did the doctor lie or did Ayer have an Voltaire remission?
By Peter Foges
American Tea Party Top 40:
A collection of smash hits by those who tea bag with their pants on (sometimes).
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/tea-party-top-40-ron-paul-rand-lloyd-marcus-ted-nugent