http://www.realclearscience.com/ en Copyright 2010 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:55:24 -0400 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 22 May 2013 03:24:12 -0400 05/22/2013/00/00/00 In his most recent diagnosis of the state of America’s political soul, the journalist and political thinker E.J. Dionne begins with a simple thesis. In the opening pages of Our Divided Political Heart, he asserts that “American history is defined by an irrepressible and ongoing tension between two core values: our love of individualism and our reverence for community.” The inevitable “creative tension” between these two commitments, he argues, is the source of ongoing American debate as well as American strength. We need to hold firmly...]]>http://www.realclearbooks.com/2013/05/22/ej_dionne039s_dumb_argument_5800.htmlhttp://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/community-or-leviathan/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/community-or-leviathan/ 2005800 AM Update Patrick Deneen, American Conservative Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:40 -0400 05/22/2013/00/00/00 The other day I picked up a copy of The Adventures of Augie March. I hadn’t remembered that Saul Bellow, writing in the early 1950s, when he was not yet forty, about Chicago in the 1920s, had been in full sympathy with the urban poor, as he definitely was not later in his career. There is a hilarious bit in the early pages in which Grandma Lausch, the March family’s boarder and a master at avoiding bills, including the rent she owes the Marches, expertly intimidates Lubin, the neighborhood welfare caseworker who comes for regular home visits wearing an ill-fitting...]]>http://www.realclearbooks.com/2013/05/22/michelle_rhee039s_education_deform_5806.htmlhttp://www.newrepublic.com/article/113096/how-michelle-rhee-misled-education-reformhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113096/how-michelle-rhee-misled-education-reform 1005806 AM Update Nicholas Lemann, The New Republic Wed, 22 May 2013 03:31:44 -0400 05/22/2013/00/00/00 I’ve come back to guest post on ShelfTalker because, like any bookseller, it is in my nature to want to share. When I find a great book I want to tell the world about it. And when I head off on an incredible book-related adventure? Well, I want to share that with you too!]]>http://www.realclearbooks.com/2013/05/22/go_to_greece_have_your_own_odyssey_5802.htmlhttp://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/shelftalker/?p=10923http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/shelftalker/?p=10923 1005802 AM Update Alison Morris, Publishers Weekly Wed, 22 May 2013 04:13:22 -0400 05/22/2013/00/00/00 I think it might mostly be the way George Saunders puzzles things aloud, but there was, I don't know, just something about listening to him defend the short story on "The Colbert Report"Â shortly after Tenth of December came out a few months back, those endless variations on a theme. It's a joke. It's a pop song. It's three minutes until the train leaves and you've got to convince her that you love her. It's eight pages to make someone cry.]]>http://www.realclearbooks.com/2013/05/22/george_saunders_amp_the_question_of_greatness_5807.htmlhttp://www.themillions.com/2013/05/can-a-short-story-writer-be-called-the-greatest-writer-of-our-time.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.themillions.com/2013/05/can-a-short-story-writer-be-called-the-greatest-writer-of-our-time.html 1005807 AM Update Elizabeth Minkel, Millions Wed, 22 May 2013 03:28:15 -0400 05/22/2013/00/00/00 The 2013 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor will be awarded to actress, comedian and bestselling author Carol Burnett, the Kennedy Center announced Tuesday.]]>http://www.realclearbooks.com/2013/05/22/carol_burnett_wins_the_mark_twain_prize_5801.htmlhttp://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-mark-twain-prize-carol-burnett-20130521,0,5623081.storyhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-mark-twain-prize-carol-burnett-20130521,0,5623081.story 1005801 AM Update Carolyn Kellogg, LA Times Wed, 22 May 2013 03:37:30 -0400 05/22/2013/00/00/00 To readers of philosophy, “logos” means reason and rational argument. To readers of the Gospels, it is the word of God made incarnate in Jesus Christ. But for seekers of all kinds on the Upper East Side, Logos is also a cozy bookshop with a lumpy recliner and a black cat named Boo Boo, who sleeps near a stack of Bibles.]]>http://www.realclearbooks.com/2013/05/22/stacks_of_bibles_and_graphic_novels_5803.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/nyregion/neighborhood-joint-yorkville-bookshop-nurtures-mind-and-spirit.html?ref=books&_r=0http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/nyregion/neighborhood-joint-yorkville-bookshop-nurtures-mind-and-spirit.xml?ref=books&_r=0 1005803 AM Update Sara Beck, New York Times Wed, 22 May 2013 04:54:46 -0400 05/22/2013/00/00/00 William G. Bowen, the former president of Princeton University, is a giant in the field of higher education, having written ground-breaking books in recent decades on affirmative action at selective colleges, class inequality in higher education, the factors that improve college completion, and the role of sports at universities. He has now turned his sights on two of the most important issues facing colleges: the problem of exploding costs and advances in technology as a possible cure.]]>http://www.realclearbooks.com/2013/05/22/egghead_in_the_clouds_5809.htmlhttp://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/may_june_2013/on_political_books/profs_in_the_cloud044520.phphttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/may_june_2013/on_political_books/profs_in_the_cloud044520.php 1005809 AM Update Richard Kahlenberg, Washington Monthly Wed, 22 May 2013 04:50:09 -0400 05/22/2013/00/00/00 Medical history is pulse-raising stuff. In our buttoned-down age, we forget that there was a time when no one objected if you tried to transfuse blood from a sheep to a child, or remove parts from a dog to see if it might live without them. Books about such fumblings put us in a place where we can watch the human mind striving for clarity in a candle-lit era. Adrenaline, by Harvard professor of medicine Brian B. Hoffman, opens such a portal.]]>http://www.realclearbooks.com/2013/05/22/a_heart-racing_history_5808.htmlhttp://www.wilsonquarterly.com/blog/index.cfm/Current_Books/2013/5/8/a-heart-racing-historyhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.wilsonquarterly.com/blog/index.cfm/Current_Books/2013/5/8/a-heart-racing-history 1005808 AM Update Hannah Holmes, Wilson Quarterly Wed, 22 May 2013 03:45:02 -0400 05/22/2013/00/00/00 JD Salinger, the elusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, was one of America's most famous recluses and guarded his private life with fanatical dedication. Yet even he might have been impressed by the immense efforts being undertaken to keep details secret of a new documentary that has been made about his life and works.]]>http://www.realclearbooks.com/2013/05/22/jd_salinger039s_secret_life_5804.htmlhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may/18/jd-salinger-secret-life-exposed-documentaryhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may/18/jd-salinger-secret-life-exposed-documentary 1005804 AM Update Paul Harris, The Guardian Wed, 22 May 2013 03:58:33 -0400 05/22/2013/00/00/00 As book blurb whore/not whore Gary Shteyngart will tell you, writing book blurbs is an artform — but it’s also a bit of a farce.]]>http://www.realclearbooks.com/2013/05/22/beware_of_book_blurbs_5805.htmlhttp://www.salon.com/2013/05/20/beware_of_book_blurbs/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.salon.com/2013/05/20/beware_of_book_blurbs/ 1005805 AM Update Prachi Gupta, Salon