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Review inequality by controlling As the fog of literary theory EuroDisney, Freedom men’s fantasy lives?... begins to lift, we can more Fries – how much more» Columnists worse can U.S./E.U. clearly see that novelists Eric Alterman relations get? Well, actually show us human Dashing, leaping, how ’bout Google reality, says Morris Anne Applebaum pratfalling, catapulting, digitizes the libraries Dickstein... more» Timothy Garton being flattened by bullies. of Europe... more» Ash Or taking a motion picture A continuously renewing Bruce Bawer camera apart. Buster society needs to foster Kick first, ask Keaton could do it all... Alex Beam innovative, versatile, and questions later: more» James Bowman martial arts films self-renewing men and Robert Boynton were once seen as a women. For Keith A German Shakespeare, Samuel Brittan minor diversion. Today Thompson that means Dante, and Pushkin rolled David Brooks they are much more... leaving the Left behind... into one, Goethe is a randy more» more» Art Buchwald iconoclast, a pure spirit who William F. made language dance... The creationists are at it Buckley In baseball, “It ain’t more» over till it’s over,” but again in Kansas, and Jon Carroll it will end, later or has a The modern European sooner. In word or two for them. family system is based at its Alexander mathematics things Creationism, after all, is core on romantic freedom. Cockburn aren’t so simple... God’s gift to the ignorant... Is this idea bound to spread Joe Conason more» more» across the world?... more» Miranda Devine The first Godzilla “You get arts journalists E. J. Dionne Jr. The contemptuousness of showed up in together these days,” says Michael Dirda Thomas Frank’s analysis Flammarion’s 1886 Doug McLennan, “and it’s of gullible red-state voters Earth history: an what they talk about: their Roger Ebert does not make it wrong. Iguanodon taking his declining influence.” Is They may well be Michael Elliott lunch from the fifth criticism on a slide?... “deranged”... more» Robert Fisk floor of a more» Thomas Friedman apartment... more» Plan as you may, prepare to Robert Fulford The preening, orotund be disappointed: there is an After years of AIDS pomposity of your typical U. Frank Furedi iron law of failure which fear, life is less S. senator is no match for Malcolm Gladwell governs all human effort... inhibited. Syphilis is the feisty, uniquely more» up by 400% in the past repellent George Victor Davis five years in NYC. Galloway, M.P.... more» ... Hanson From the political low of Gay men account for So who is this Galloway Suez in 1956 to the Johann Hari virtually all the rise... chap? aesthetic high of the Jeet Heer more» Beatles, 1960s Britain at Nat Hentoff last figured out how to Rock music is so Jan Herman “Women and men are enjoy life... more» “antithetical to the Christian Jim Hightower set to become more concept of redemption and alike in today’s freedom” must be excluded Christopher “Germany, Faithful Friend liberated, unisex http://aldaily.com/ (7 of 19)6/20/2005 4:06:20 PM Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate

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Varadarajan petri dish” from “early really? Consider art born Steven Levitt aims to show David Warren human life”? You against a backdrop of anti- might ask a scientist – us the freakish truth about aircraft fire in World War Margaret Wente the way the world actually or perhaps a II... more» novelist... more» is, whether we like it or Jonathan Yardley not... more» ’s rhetoric of J. Peder Zane Nature vs. nurture, risk and collapse does not women vs. men, The Butcher of Amritsar. convince:he gives only one Gen. Dyer wanted to shoot Favorites Summers vs. his side of the balance sheet, a few hundred unarmed Art & Cognition faculty. And now to ignoring the human benefits debate the issues face civilians in 1919, and he that go with environmental Andante needed the right troops for Beliefnet to face, damage... more» vs. Elizabeth Spelke... the job... more» Big Eye more» Should the Runaway Bride Butterflies & Young men attracted to the pay for the time wasted by Wheels What with the internet excitement of being a part police searching for her? Context and all, fewer of a select fugitive family, But those hours of police CounterPunch newspapers are being seeking adventure, purpose. time were wasted before Perfect chaps for al Daily Gusto bought by folks. Fools! she broke any law... more» Qaeda... more» Debka File Don’t they realize that Drudge Report you can’t swat a fly Deliver us from Wal- with a computer?... Semi-capitalist China will Economic Mart. The Lord rebukes more» not replay Soviet “those who defraud laborers Principals censorship, but free spirits of their wages” as well as Edge He’s either a plain- in China are still short of those who “failed to pay the Ethics & Policy spoken man who is enjoying free speech. workmen who mowed the Eurozine right for the U.N. or a Witness Mo Yan... more» fields”... more» Exquisite Corpse bad choice at the No matter how intelligent FrontPage wrong time. John A polarized electorate? Bolton is one or the the students, generous the That’s what many observers Globalist salary, lovely the setting, or Greenhouse Fiasco other... more» would say of U.S. voters light the teaching load, after the election of 2004. I Want Media The posterior academics are always Alan Wolfe is not sure the Ifeminists hippocampi of the unhappy... more» differences are all so deep... Improbable brains of average more» Research London cabbies grow Every loopy idea he ever Killing the Buddha the more years they had has been vindicated. The Germans at least Logos clock up on the job. As Maybe Einstein’s biggest learned a thing or two from gamble, his repudiation of MediaNews for Tibetan monks... the Second World War. The more» quantum theory, will be British, on the other hand, MEMRI too... more» Mr. Beller’s ’hood still prefer to wallow in They began as “chow- triumphalism. Time for Nationmaster chows” for Chinese Not just an intellectual, them to grow up... more» Nerve laborers. Today there Josef Stalin was a New Partisan are three times as compulsive editor who Star Wars movies: Post- Newtopia many Chinese corrected for style and hippie, pre-New Age, a grammar any manuscript http://aldaily.com/ (9 of 19)6/20/2005 4:06:20 PM Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate

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teeth the triumph of Albert Speer and his America... more» boss had their notorious plans for Gay marriage may be the Berlin. Less known are current hot-button topic, but Josef Stalin’s more basic are questions unrealized plans for about love, sexuality, and Moscow... more» family in a free society. Do we even need marriage?... Saul Bellow, who more» brought to his fiction immigrant’s hustle, Saul Bellow’s best America bookworm’s brains, would be a Times Square and high-minded ideas, version of a German is dead... NYT ... SF university, with intellectual Chron ... Reuters ... rigor on one side and FT ... Guardian ... scrambling freedom – sex Wash Post ... Houston included – on the other... Chron ... Boston more» ... more» ... more» Globe ... Xan Brooks ... London “Let’s be clear,” sighs Times ... Chic Sun- Aime Guibert, amidst a damp row of Bordeaux Times ... Le Monde ... vines, “wine is dead.” Tell Jon Yardley ... Dan it to a vigneron of the Napa Cryer ... Lorin Stein ... Valley, Australia, or New Christopher Zealand... more» Hitchens ... Chic Tribune ... Dickens’s Mr. Podsnap Independent ... fretted about bringing a Telegraph ... WSJ ... blush to the cheek of a Carlin Romano ... Tom young person. Podsnappery, U.S. style? Not printing the McBride title of Harry Frankfurt’s On Bullshit... more» Have newborn babies look at machine Anton Chekhov felt there mobiles and human was “more love for face mobiles. Do boys mankind in electricity and and girls react the steam than in chastity and same, or not?... more» abstinence from meat.” He meant Leo Tolstoy. Two The lifelong friendship different writers... more» of Paul Nitze and George Kennan began How do you bring by accident on a train. coherence to a pragmatic, In the end it defined U. http://aldaily.com/ (16 of 19)6/20/2005 4:06:20 PM Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate

S. Cold War policy... cautious, and moralistic more» ... NSC 68 ... political left? Begin by Mr. X’s telegram stressing the critical value of equality, says Michael What a dullard the Walzer... more» Victorians made of Charlotte Brontë. She Nostalgia goes back a long was in truth a filthy way, says Roger Sandall, genius, the sex- 10,000 years, in fact. obsessed grandmother People have been looking of chick-lit... more» back at a better past for as long as there’s been a past Technology? The web to look back at... more» is more than that: it’s now an ideology of Showman, playwright, “freedom” – and philosopher, mystic: Karol theft. It may take Jozef Wojtyla was a Justice Scalia to sort it towering force of out... more» humanistic and spiritual thought who compelled a In mathematical noisy world to pay proof you take one attention... more» big, non-obvious step and reduce it to a From Aristotle to Bernard bunch of smaller, Shaw and beyond, they obvious ones. Now, were always there. Now enter the computer... they’ve disappeared. We more» have major playwrights but no major drama critics... Nostalgia for the more» 1960s as a time of heroic activism may Has a rational, enlightened tempt progressives to Europe figured things out, recycle those protest once and for all? Can styles today. Bad people live content in a idea... more» paradise of material pursuit? Nicolas Sarkozy For a young Indian has his doubts... more» woman in New York, what’s best? Dating What do Americans want? service? Singles bars? Freedom, say Your parents choosing conservatives. Liberals will a vegetarian husband not win the debate, or the for you?... more» next election, by trying to change the subject, argues Subjectively, we all William Galston... more»

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think we are free to act No sooner does it seem that as we choose. But the novel is safely dead thinking does not make than someone comes along it so, B.F. Skinner and flogs the poor old horse insisted... more» to life again. Holding the whip: Michel Houellebecq... more»

Since anyone can write a weblog, why is the blogosphere so heavy with white guys? Steven Levy worries... more» ... So does Heather Mac Donald.

There were 7,258 multinationals in 1969. By 2000, there were 63,000, with 80% of the world’s industrial output. And that’s just for starters, says Peter Drucker... more»

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