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Month October 2008

Dr. Robert Epstein: McCain, Obama, and Some Painful Truths About Aging

the highest mental age we can achieve is fifteen and a half

Gekko: How Reality Trumped My Sequel – The Daily Beast

Anyone want to see a movie about credit default swaps?

Lots of books about English. – By Christine Kenneally – Slate Magazine

English is a dizzying and manifold thing

James Carville and Paul Begala: Let the Blame Game Begin

What does it mean to be a Republican? Do Republicans support laissez-faire or nationalized banking? Do Republicans support a balanced budget or half-trillion-dollar deficits? Do Republicans want a ‘humble foreign policy’ like George W. Bush, or preventive war against countries that pose no threat, like, umm, George W. Bush? Are Republicans the party of limited [...]

The Reckoning – Struggling to Keep Up as the Crisis Raced On – Series – NYTimes.com

Ten years from now no one is going to say that this crisis was brought about because Lehman Brothers went down.

ENIGMA’S SECRET TWIN

Bodyguard of lies

Moonshot

NASA – Doomed Moon of Mars

Not to Complicate Matters, but … – ChronicleReview.com

The new devotion to complexity gives carte blanche to even the most trivial scholarly enterprise.

If you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with a serving of Dr. Frankfurt’s finest.

Hustings

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Declarations – WSJ.com

Conservatives and Republicans, on the other hand, continue to battle it out: Was her choice a success or a disaster? And if one holds negative views, should one say so? For conservatives in general, but certainly for writers, the answer is a variation on Edmund Burke: You owe your readers not your industry only [...]