I first learned about The Feminine Mistake by Leslie Bennetts when I read a review of it in the Washington Post here. Suitably intrigued, I picked it up and read.
The Feminine Mistake darts around like a minnow and continually circles back to a couple of core points. It is a little Momento-ish since each chapter [...]
Recently, the Queen of England came and went (Carter had some interesting comments here in a post titled “Send the Queen Home”).
Isn’t it totally absurd that any modern country has a heredity ruler (figurehead, whatever)?
Jeremy Paxon (author of On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry Into Some Strangely Related Families) was on the Daily Show with [...]
I am not sure if Milan Kundera has ever heard the term “Web 2.0”, but in his book (though, he was likely writing it before the term was coined anyway) The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts (that I first wrote about here) there is a quote that strikes me as related.
Kundera is referring to [...]
I hate to cook and will go to great lengths to avoid it. I hate talking or thinking about food or recipes. But, I truly hate cleaning up after cooking, which makes me hate the whole concept of cooking even more. At times, I think that people who say they like to [...]
The first one I bought about twelve years ago at the Kramer Books and Afterwards Cafe in Washington, DC (the store had its 15 minutes of fame about three years later).
Anyway, A History of Knowledge by Charles Van Doren is an exceptional overview of world history through the lens of all that humankind has created, [...]
Craig Newmark was on the Jon Stewart show a couple of nights ago. He was talking about the concept of a distributed, somewhat leaderless organization.
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of the Leaderless Organization by Ori Brafman and Rod Becstrom is not exactly a detailed (i.e. scholarly) review of this concept, but [...]
While Freakonomics is by some definition an economics book and purists might say that the study of economics has nothing to do with useful math, when I read it all I keep thinking was “lies, damn lies and statistics”.
Admittedly, it is an entertaining book and has been on the NY Times hardcover non-fiction best seller [...]
Milan Kundera just published a work of non-fiction called The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts.
Let me start by making it clear that I love every word Milan Kundera has ever written. I think he is brilliant and his books (since the ones that I have read are translations) are almost enough for me to [...]
