Times Literary Supplement (February 14, 2024): The latest issue features Thinking AI; London literary consequences, A new play in the great tradition, and Household terrors…
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Feb 16, 2024
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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Feb 9, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (February 7, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Cancel Culture’ – The limits of academic free speech; An Auschwitz memoir; Wittgenstein’s bombshell; Horrible legions and Dutch artobiography…
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Feb 2, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (January 31 2024): The latest issue features ‘Back to Nature’ – The counterculture begins with Thoreau; Enlightenment dimmed; The secret state and the IRA; Homosexuality in early modern Europe and A family haunting….
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Jan 26, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (January 24, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Rich Are Always With Us’ – Ferdinand Mount on taming the plutocrats; Empire’s balance sheet; Who is Charles III?; Silvia Townsend Warner’s revival and ChatGPT goes to college…
Commentary Magazine – February 2024 Preview
They’re Coming After Us
‘IHAVE NEVER FELT LIKE THIS BEFORE’
I have lost count of the number of times the phrase “I have never felt like this before” has been spoken in my ear, texted to me, or sent to me in an email, in the three months since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.
When I talked with Israelis on a trip in November, the phrase described a gut emotion few under the age of 50 said they had ever experienced—the sense that they were personally vulnerable to outside attack in a manner more like an extended military invasion than a terrorist blow. They had lived through years of ineffectual rocket fire that was all but magically extinguished by the Iron Dome and Arrow anti-missile systems.
The Likely Lab Leak and the Covid Cassandra
Enola Gay, or, How the Media Imploded When It Came to Harvard’s President
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Jan 19, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (January 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Power Failure’ – The retreat from net zero; Canon wars; The end of literary criticism; Empires imprint on the Middle East; Harvard and plagarism….
Research Preview: Science Magazine – Oct 28, 2022
Bursts in skull evolution weakened with time
The skull shapes of mammals diversified more rapidly early in their history
Forgotten Ebola vaccine could help in outbreak
Merck unearths a frozen batch of an experimental vaccine it made years ago
Harvard studies on infant monkeys draw fire
Experiments involving eyelid suturing and maternal separation divide scientists
Monkeypox outbreak is ebbing—but why exactly?
Models suggest rising immunity in a small group of people, not vaccination, is key
Cover Preview: Harvard Magazine – Nov/Dec 2022
Justice Elena Kagan, in Dissent
Ebbing trust in the Supreme Court, and what to do about it
The Off-Kilter Economy
Reckoning with inflation and its remedies
Energy-Saving, Low-Cost Air Conditioning
Two new technologies could provide an eco-friendly cooling solution.
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