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The Disaster Mentality
I have been reading Bill McKibben’s latest piece for The New York Review with great fascination. It is a review of the book A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit. As McKibben makes...Confronting the Consequences of ‘Industrial’ Health Care
Last August, when it seemed as if the very concept of a public debate over health care reform was being reduced to one aggressive shout-fest after another, I raised the following question: Is there any country other than the United States that classifies...Another Dark Growth Industry
Last March I discovered that economic recovery might depend on two major opportunities for growth from The Dark Side. One was rehab and the other was guns and ammunition. Both appealed (if that is the right verb) to those who had reached the limit...The Way We Really Were
My wife cannot stand Mad Men. For all I know, she is so put off by all of the characters that she may well regard the intensity of my attention to this program in the same light as the guilty pleasure of going to a carnival freak show. From James...Internet News?
The latest issue of The New York Review has a piece by Michael Massing entitled “The News About the Internet.” In many ways it is a response to the testimony given to the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet...The Sorrows of the Unedited Text
This morning’s Telegraph Web site offers an interesting essay by Alex Clark reflecting on the recent “dust-up” (his term) between Alain de Botton and Caleb Crain after the latter reviewed the former’s book, The Pleasures and...Professors And Politicians in Vilnius
Apparently, it is one thing for a Yale University Professor of History to explore parallels between Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin and quite another for politicians to acknowledge that professor’s work. The professor in question is Timothy Snyder....Globalization And Genocide
There are several dimensions to the “ignored reality” of the Holocaust examined by Timothy Snyder in his essay in the latest issue of The New York Review. Most important is his observation that “many if not more Jews were killed...
