How anger creates a false feeling of power – and thus Trump
How was Trump able to harness so much anger, even though he had proposed no solutions and offered no way to build anything new? Martha Nussbaum offers that he c...
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A rowdy, harrowing, vital book: My Times review of ‘Galileo’s Middle Finger,’ by Alice Dreger.
I’ve a review of Alice Dreger’s latest book in this week’s New York Times Sunday Book Review; it just appeared online. “Galileo’s Middl...
The 80 richest people own as much as the poorest 3.5 billion
Hand it to the rich — no, wait, they already took it. Anyway, they get the job done. From my latest Read 2 roundup, a connection of pieces on wealth pain...
Read 2: Trouble at Vassar, peace in Rwanda, success at the Strand. Plus Angela Merkel’s secret & how brains create agency.
The Astonishing Rise of Angela Merkel. By George Packer at The New Yorker John Kornblum, a former U.S. Ambassador to Germany, who still lives in Berlin, said, “...
Is SCOTUS’s gambit to wreck healthcare unprecedented?
Linda Greenhouse says it is — and that next to SCOTUS’s decision to put Obamacare on the choppping block, Bush v. Gore was nothing. There was no urgency. There ...
Why Do Military Brats Kick Butt in Reading and Math?
Helen Epstein, in an aside in her fine piece on public-health innovator Sara Josephine Baker, suggests it rises partly from the excellent healthcare, daycare, a...
How The Deniers Win: Question Motives
Updated 06/17/2013 11:16am EDT (see tail end of story) James Gilbert has the goods over at The Conversation: Climate sceptics have won, Martin Wolf lamented in ...
Obama Adds “Romnesia” to Diagnostic Manual
No reason the President shouldn’t join the DSM-V frenzy. “I’m not a doctor. But I think we should go over the symptoms.” Via the absolut...
Do Big Governments Make for Small People?
That’s what John Boehner said last night. Ezra Klein brings the fact-check: “You know,” Speaker John Boehner said last night, “I’ve always believed the bi...
Malcolm Gladwell: Twitter, You’re No Martin Luther King
Malcolm Gladwell has roiled things up with an article arguing that fans of social media tools like Twitter and Facebook are wildly overstating the powers of the...