An underappreciated masterpiece

http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article07181101.aspx


http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/08/heller-201108?printable=true

Greenstein Statement on the “Cut, Cap, and Balance Act” That the House Will Consider on July 19 — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Greenstein Statement on the “Cut, Cap, and Balance Act” That the House Will Consider on July 19 — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

An Eye-Opening Adventure in Socialized Medicine

An Eye-Opening Adventure in Socialized Medicine

What If The Right And The Left Are Both Wrong About Why The Economic Recovery Is So Slow? A New Theory. | The New Republic

What If The Right And The Left Are Both Wrong About Why The Economic Recovery Is So Slow? A New Theory. | The New Republic

Higher Taxes Are Popular!

http://capitalgainsandgames.com/blog/bruce-bartlett/2309/people-support-higher-taxes-reduce-deficit-2-1-margin

Newt's Current Shtick

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/07/faith-and-freedom

Obama Still Wants To Cut A Terrible Deal | The New Republic

Obama Still Wants To Cut A Terrible Deal | The New Republic

In Which I Have Unkind Words About Eric Cantor

In Which I Have Unkind Words About Eric Cantor

Army experiments with off-the-shelf smartphones - USATODAY.com

Army experiments with off-the-shelf smartphones - USATODAY.com

You Wouldn't Predict This as an American Export

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/julyaugust_2011/features/the_lions_of_lagos_the_rotaria030493.php

A History of the Internet

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Reading retreats: Taking Book Clubs to the Next Level

Reading retreats: Paradise for book lovers

Let's Make a Deal

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/07/understanding-obama

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/07/dumbfounded.php

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/mitch-mcconnells-surprising-proposal-to-empower-barack-obama/2011/07/11/gIQA4RDBBI_blog.html

More on National Default

Next time you hear an American politician suggest we're going to turn out like Greece, keep this in mind.

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2011/07/11/110711ta_talk_surowiecki

Should China be 'contained'? - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Should China be 'contained'? - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Getting Serious about Taxes

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/us/05wilmington.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/05/us/wilmington-budget.html?WT.mc_id=GN-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M209-ROS-0711-L2&WT.mc_ev=click

The Media Problem

http://www.slate.com/id/2298871/

A Mental Health Check List

http://www.slate.com/id/2298453/

Constitutional Myth #7: The 10th Amendment Protects 'States' Rights' - The Atlantic

Constitutional Myth #7: The 10th Amendment Protects 'States' Rights' - The Atlantic

Why the Debt Ceiling Debate Is Like the NFL Lockout - The Atlantic

Why the Debt Ceiling Debate Is Like the NFL Lockout - The Atlantic

Arresting the Innocent

http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2011/07/09/13211

Economic Booms Past

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/11/137497772/how-trains-railroaded-the-american-economy

Balls

http://www.tabletmag.com/life-and-religion/71771/sad-sack/

More Economic Bad News

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/business/economy/as-government-aid-fades-so-may-the-recovery.html?_r=1&hp

Did Sheila Bair Save the US From Complete Financial Meltdown?

Did Sheila Bair Save the US From Complete Financial Meltdown?

Summer Rerun: Geithner and Summers as Obama’s Cheney and Rumsfeld

Summer Rerun: Geithner and Summers as Obama’s Cheney and Rumsfeld

The Role of Fear in the Making of Political Decisions

http://epiphenom.fieldofscience.com/2011/06/fear-and-god.html

Reading Walt Whitman

http://www.themillions.com/2011/07/embracing-the-other-i-am-or-how-walt-whitman-saved-my-life.html

More on Tree of Life

http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/71728/tree-of-strife/

Reading about Food

http://thebrowser.com/interviews/steven-kaplan-on-history-food?page=1

On Fidelity

http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/can-handsome-men-stay-faithful/

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beautiful-minds/201105/why-do-people-resist-the-temptation-cheat

Paul Ryan’s $350 Plan for Economic Expansion (you still don't get a job)

Paul Ryan’s $350 Bottle of Wine

How to Become an American (without ever being here)

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/05/indian-call-center-americanization

New Democracies: Avoiding American Mistakes

http://www.juancole.com/2011/07/10-ways-arab-democracies-can-avoid-american-mistakes.html

Insight & Intuition

http://edge.org/conversation/insight

Barack Obama: Wall Street's Errand Boy?

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/frank-rich-blasts-obama-20110706

The New Atlantis » Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science

The New Atlantis » Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science

Syria: U.S. Ambassador Visits Hama

Syria: U.S. Ambassador Visits Hama

Some Combat Reports from the Class War

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/91605/man-jailed-cashing-check

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-nobody-tells-you-about-being-poor/

Life under Slavery Was Better than Life Under Obama

Bachmann signs anti-porn, anti-sharia pledge

The Final Shuttle

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/2011/04/12/nasa_spaceflight_future_government_robots

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/7150e5de-5b37-11e0-b2a1-00144feab49a.html#axzz1RWCTy3bG

http://www.esquire.com/features/human-space-flight-0209

Debt Negotiations Get Serious - The Atlantic

Debt Negotiations Get Serious - The Atlantic

The Free Market at Work (I think)

http://economix3.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/bristol-palin-and-how-society-establishes-value/?src=twrhp

The GOP Feedback Loop: How Presidential Candidates And Congressmen Are Moving Each Other To The Right | The New Republic

The GOP Feedback Loop: How Presidential Candidates And Congressmen Are Moving Each Other To The Right | The New Republic

Cell Phones Define America

http://www.good.is/post/this-is-the-connected-states-of-america/

Higher Education: Totally Screwed?

http://www.quickanded.com/2011/07/department-of-future-catastrophes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheQuickAndTheEd+%28The+Quick+and+the+Ed%29

Medicaid Works.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/health/policy/07medicaid.html?_r=1

Frank Rich on Obama's Failures

http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/obama-economy/presidents-failure/

Where Have All the Girls Gone? - By Mara Hvistendahl | Foreign Policy

Where Have All the Girls Gone? - By Mara Hvistendahl | Foreign Policy

New Forms of Economic Theory

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-gops-evolving-case-against-taxes/2011/07/06/gIQApbTX0H_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein

Obama’s Short-Sighted View Of U.S. Politics | The New Republic

Obama’s Short-Sighted View Of U.S. Politics | The New Republic

More on the Republican Plan to Make the U.S. a 3rd World Country

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/house-gop-expected-to-ax-transportation-funds/2011/07/05/gHQAt9HkzH_story.html

Pork-Hustling House Republicans Make The Case For Infrastructure Spending

Pork-Hustling House Republicans Make The Case For Infrastructure Spending

Michele Bachmann’s ‘Constitutional Conservatism': The Hidden Meaning | The New Republic

Michele Bachmann’s ‘Constitutional Conservatism': The Hidden Meaning | The New Republic

Behind the Scenes, Christian Right Leaders Rally Behind Rick Perry

Behind the Scenes, Christian Right Leaders Rally Behind Rick Perry

The Republican Plan for Destroying the American Economy

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/07/why-cant-the-gop-get-to-yes/241437/

http://www.frumforum.com/default-will-extract-a-political-price-from-the-gop

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/07/americas-debt-ceiling-0

GOP Politicians and Policy Basics

GOP Politicians and Policy Basics

I Want to Be President So I Can Shut Down the Government!

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/07/05/another-t-paw-ad-in-iowa/

You Are a Host

Discovering my microbiome: “You, my friend, are a wonderland”

The Fourth of July and Freedom

http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/07/must-i-be-free.html#more

What does 'the pursuit of happiness' mean for communities? | Kaid Benfield's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

What does 'the pursuit of happiness' mean for communities? | Kaid Benfield's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

E-Readers and the End of Love

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/complaint-box-how-e-readers-destroyed-my-love-life/?hp

The Greatest Liars (what about Keyser Söze?)

http://marbury.typepad.com/marbury/2011/06/ten-great-liars.html

Barbecue & the Rise of Civilization

 http://www.common-place.org/vol-11/no-03/reviews/albala.shtml

http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/lifestyle/lysandra-ohrstrom/barbecue-competition

http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/conversations/porphyry-ted-nugent.php

What Does It Mean to Be the Other Woman?

http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article06281102.aspx

What Does It Mean to Be a Woman?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/24/feminism-21st-century-zoe-williams

David Foster Wallace & the Search for Transcendence

http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article06241101.aspx

The Final Space Shuttle

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-shuttle-astronauts-20110703,0,1779953,full.story

An Economic Story

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20110703,0,1163343.column

Religion and Globalization

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67909/karen-barkey/secularism-and-its-discontents?page=show

Unnecessary Words

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/30/wordsandlanguage

What Does the Word "Worse" Mean?

Romney Repeatedly Said Obama ‘Made The Recession Worse,’ Now Claims ‘I Didn’t Say That Things Are Worse’:


http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_06/those_desperate_to_turn_back_t030264.php

Constitutional Myth #6: The Second Amendment Allows Citizens to Threaten Government - The Atlantic

Constitutional Myth #6: The Second Amendment Allows Citizens to Threaten Government - The Atlantic

In South Korea or in the U.S., Educational Excellence Isn't Enough - The Atlantic

In South Korea or in the U.S., Educational Excellence Isn't Enough - The Atlantic

America's Imprudent Obsession With the Muslim World - The Atlantic

America's Imprudent Obsession With the Muslim World - The Atlantic

Republicans Reject Republican Budget Proposals (& I cannot make this stuff up)

http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/republicans-reject-the-republican-offer-on-deficit-cutting-mix-or-democrats-propose-the-aei-plan-on-tax-increases-vs-spending-cuts/

Sonic, Burger King, other fast-food chains selling alcohol - USATODAY.com

Sonic, Burger King, other fast-food chains selling alcohol - USATODAY.com