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Bibliomaniacs

The Washington Post ran a piece recently that speaks to me [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/22/AR2006032200557.html?nav%3Dmost_emailed&sub=AR] : > Books, it turns out, inflame a particular kind of passion. They inform, they amuse, they provoke. They keep us company

Give Adults the Money

The clever and brilliant (the two don't always go together) Charles Murray throws down a paradoxical challenge to America: use its flood of money to end the welfare state by giving money to Americans. His new book (In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State) comes

Monk Leaps

This must make the smarmy Brown one really proud [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/22/nmonk22.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/03/22/ixhome.html] : > A monk may have leapt to his death from a monastery after reading The Da Vinci Code,

More Vinci

The Christian Science Monitor has run an extended piece about Christians' efforts to derail The Da Vinci Code. [http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0322/p13s01-lire.html] It's mostly a re-hash of stuff I've already mentioned on this site. The best part is this simple observation:

Electric Kool-Aid

The sixties have always fascinated me, and not just in a nauseous way. I've read Gitlin and Horowitz's histories, I've read plenty of Kerouac and an assortment of others. But I've never read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test [http://www.cjr.org/

Bond

Interesting Christopher Hitchens piece in The Atlantic Monthly about Ian Fleming, who is described as "sadist, a narcissist, and an all-around repressed pervert." I've read a few Bond books, at the request of my wife, who's a big fan (no, she's not

Crunchy Cons

Re: Crunchy Cons [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400050642/thedailyeudem-20] I started it on Saturday and finished it on Saturday. I'm not going to write a detailed review. Rather, I offer these random thoughts. First, the good news. Dreher is a delightful writer and his sentiments

Neglected Books

> Welcome to the Neglected Books page. Here you'll find lists of thousands of books that have been neglected, overlooked, forgotten, or stranded by changing tides in critical or popular taste. [http://www.neglectedbooks.com/index.html] When I first saw this, I thought, "Well, if books

Manly Men

I've been meaning to mention this all week, but haven't gotten the chance: a Boston Globe article about Harvey Mansfield's new book, Manliness. I haven't read the book, but I've read a little of Mansfield's stuff. I suspect

Wikipedia

Readers of this blog know I like Wikipedia, though I don't entirely trust it. Is it trustworthy? I think so, and so do some researchers. From The Atlantic Monthly: > [Wikipedia] is not much worse than the online version of the legendary Encyclopedia Britannica, according to a study