From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Robert Wright, A Secularist “Bullish About Monotheism”

In sharp contrast to many contemporary secularists, Wright is bullish about monotheism. In “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny” (2000), he argued that there is

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It’s Time to Create Your Own Economy

More and more, “production” — that word my fellow economists have worked over for generations — has become interior to the human mind rather than

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‘The Whole Five Feet – What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else’

[H]e approaches the classics without the apocalyptic vision of a culture warrior or the sort of popularizing sentiment that glibly reduces Aristotle to a self-help

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Cristina Nehring’s A Vindication of Love

In her view, we have domesticated love past all recognition, turning what is rightly leonine, destructive, and majestic into a yawning, chubby house cat. Hers

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Data Center Overload

It seemed heretical to think of Karl Marx. But looking at the roomful of computers running automated trading models that themselves scan custom-formatted machine-readable financial

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Katie Roiphe on ‘A Vindication of Love – Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century’

Nehring interrogates our steadfast insistence on balanced, healthy relationships, our readiness to condemn doomed, impossible entanglements. She argues that it may in fact be a

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In Movie Review Multiplexes, Online Readers Join In

“So the paradox is that the Web has invigorated criticism as an activity while undermining it as a profession,” Mr. Scott said.

via In Movie

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Why old dogs are the best dogs

They can be eccentric, slow afoot, even grouchy. But dogs live out their final days, says The Washington Post’s Gene Weingarten, with a humility and

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