online archive
5:00PM
JUL 10 2008
New classical music is absolute torture
From Counterpunch, are there really oil wars? Kevin Phillips on why the economy is worse than we know. Page by page, a good book can rewire your brain. From ResetDOC, a referendum on America: A forum with Andrew Arato, Benjamin Barber and Jim Sleeper (and part 2). From TAP, a look at why Obama is not a God; and an article on how the Left can avoid a new education war. Obama wonders what's up with all those "English-only" whiners — learn Spanish, already; and debates over language reflect the anxiety that some people feel about America's changing cultural landscape. Jesus loves you and your orgasm: The religious right is celebrating sex to stroke its conservative message; liberals better rise to a secular defense soon (and more on the war on sex). Why Fox News shouldn't be allowed to talk about sex. A review of The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay by Louis Begley, and a review of Kafka's Letter to My Father (and more). A review of The Road He Travelled: The Revealing Biography of M. Scott Peck by Arthur Jones. From Modern Age, Robert Beum on the divinization of democracy. Ex-prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi accuses Bush of murder. After 40 years and 1,500 concerts, Joe Queenan is finally ready to say the unsayable: new classical music is absolute torture, and its fans have no reason to be so smug.
