Archive for October, 2008
What to Read on Halloween?
I’m sorry to say, but our Records of the Salem Witch Trials (yes, ALL of the legal documents!) won’t be out for a couple more months. It’s a big book, but done right. We do, however, have a fully unauthorized biography of Satan. This issue of New York Review of Books reviewed our recently published [...]
A Place for “Ruthful”
Ruth Wajnryb is WORDS columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald. Her new book, You Know What I Mean? plumbs the depths of language, and the shifty, slippery meanings of our words. Here, a meditation on her own first name. Although you probably have less reason than some to look up ‘ruth’ in the dictionary, doing [...]
Truth, Symmetry, and Quantum Computers
If the real world, at its base, is quantum, then should we not think with quantum logic? Shahn Majid discusses how the notion of quantum symmetry coming out of modern ideas on space and time could provide clues to the workings of a truly quantum computer. Have you ever sat through a really boring flow [...]
Commentary Reviews After Bush
Writing for Commentary, Joshua Muravchik reviewed Tim Lynch and Rob Singh’s After Bush in this month’s issue. The End of the Beginning After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy GEORGE W. BUSH has been one of the most reviled of recent Presidents, and he has poll ratings to match. But with the [...]
David Friedman on Marketplace of Ideas
Future Imperfect author David Friedman was recently interviewed on KCSB Santa Barbara’s The Marketplace of Ideas. Have a listen! Lew McCreary, writing for Harvard Business review, recently commented on Future Imperfect. We want the world to be orderly, but too often it is simply a mess. Friedman, a law professor, gleefully sorts out a host [...]
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