[Thanks to duplicity for suggesting this show.] Chelsea noted in her post for Marcia Angell on Big Pharma last week that we were were thinking about a whole series on...
We got an irresistible pitch from tbrucia a few weeks ago: Today’s NYT website features an article: U.S. Erects Baghdad Wall to Keep Sects Apart (registration req.). What about a...
[Since we ended up covering many of these issues on our Ralph Ellison’s America show, we sent this one to the graveyard.] Leave it to nother to channel exactly what...
Update, 1/25 12:09 pm I was hoping to get someone’s opinion here. I reached page 300 in this book and can’t get motivated to continue. As I read I can’t...
Blaine Harden’s remarkable article The Dirt in the New Machine starts with this memorable line: Before you make another call on that cell phone, take a moment, close your eyes...
This show has been sent to the graveyard. For an explanation, see our post on Experiments in Democracy. Yesterday’s redistricting show brought up many interesting questions with regard to race....
The Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon are a tragic by-product of the decades-old conflict with Israel, and may be at the real and symbolic center of brokering a solution. The...
On yesterday’s news that Israel has entered Lebanon and has now bombed the airport in Beirut and laid out a naval blockade, we are wondering (and so is everyone else)...
3 Quarks Daily — which, true to its name, is one of our daily reads — pointed recently to an interesting article on the Japanese economy by UCLA business professor...
What does The Dictionary mean to you? What makes a real word? Scarequotes, in a comment on Open Source, May 17, 2006 We are intrigued by the questions that Scarequotes...
As Chris wrote in his post game analysis for our recent Rebuilding New Orleans show: The public story is shockingly simple and stark after that conversation: good people and a...
