This is a story that I like to read. According to the New York Times, it seems that for the first time in 30 years, Harvard is reevaluating its undergraduate curriculum to “concluding that students need more room for broad exploration, a greater familiarity with […]
Here is an interesting site to check out in coming weeks, if you are interesting in Richard Florida’s views about courting the “creative class” (http://www.americancity.org/Archives/Issue5/florida.html). Florida, the Heinz Professor of Economic Development at Carnegie Mellon and Visiting Scholar at the Brookings Institution published “The Rise […]
An interesting lead from an April 22 story in the New York Times. “WASHINGTON, April 22 – The Bush administration’s plans for a new caretaker government in Iraq would place severe limits on its sovereignty, including only partial command over its armed forces and no […]
Selling books is a tough business no matter where you are. The New York Times reported that the well-known British bookseller W.H. Smith is in dire straits. The bookstores are located everywhere in Britain, train stations, airports, on every corner. I’ve only been to England […]
Here we go again: another book highlighting the inner workings of the White House and the war in Iraq. Just in the past couple of months we have seen books by Richard Clarke and John Dean. Now the ultimate insider has a new book about […]
So, last night I finished “Tour of Duty” by Douglas Brinkley, a history of John Kerry’s involvement in Vietnam, as well as his many activities protesting the war when he returned home. It is very difficult to read the book today and not draw any […]
Here’s a new book that is bound to be controversial. John Dean, the famous whistleblower who testified 30 years ago in the Nixon Watergate scandal, has written a new book about the Bush White House’s use of secrecy. His book is titled “Worse Than Watergate” […]
What is the difference between a liberal and a conservative? The answers for many are obvious. But for an interesting look into how the two groups think, peak at this article in The Chronicle (http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i30/30b01601.htm). Political philosopher Carl Schmitt is an important thinker in today’s […]