Monthly Archives: March 2012

What do David Brooks, The American Enterprise Institute, and the world’s population demographics have in common? That and other questions are elucidated in Mr. Brooks essay of March 12, 2012 titled The Fertility Implosion , be forewarned, his mood is … Continue reading →

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12582     What is curious in Mr. James Klagge’s book Wittgenstein in Exile is that he explores very thoroughly the notion of exile as the master idea in the life of Ludwig Wittgenstein, but he leaves utterly and inexplicably … Continue reading →

I know that you, like me, never miss the opportunity to read,even on the sly,The Daily Beast. My friend Tina Brown has rescued more failures than Abe Burrows (look it up on Wikipedia), or at the least she valiantly tried. … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/world/middleeast/iran-intelligence-crisis-s…   The World Hegemon declares itself the moral arbiter of who can or cannot build a nuclear weapon, while the painfully obvious empirical evidence that America has been the only nation to use such weapons, escapes the notice of … Continue reading →

OUT OF PRINT http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300080377 http://www.amazon.com/George-Santayana-Mr-Irving-Singer/dp/0300080379/ref=sr_…  

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I’m just reading Mr. Brooks column of March 1, 2012 titled The Machiavellian Temptation. For those who are not old enough to recall, this is a pastiche on the windy and now utterly forgotten book by Jean-François Revel titled The … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/beautiful-souls-by-eyal-press…. http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Souls-Breaking-Heeding-Conscience/dp/03741434…  

Thomas Drake  (Credit: Tony Powell) http://www.salon.com/2012/03/07/nsa_whistle_blower_obama_worse_than_bush/?sou…