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Asides

  • February 20, 2010
    What we need today is not a generation that is “spiritual, not religious.” I would argue that what is needed…
  • February 19, 2010
    The attorney representing four of the Americans who were being held in Haiti on kidnapping charges is FPR's Caleb Stegall.
  • February 19, 2010
    Obama's energy initiatives offer little change, and less hope. Large nuclear plants with massive power grids are no solution.
  • February 19, 2010
    David Brooks on the meritocracy: good critique, bad conclusion.
  • February 17, 2010
    "Memory and imagination, as Vico says in the New Science, are closely connected to ingenuity (in Italian, ingegno; in Latin,…
  • February 16, 2010
    Beans, Bibles, and bullets seem to be the watchwords of some members of the Tea Party movement. Are their fears…
  • February 15, 2010
    A photographic essay depicting a week's worth of food consumed by families in various societies.
  • February 14, 2010
    Of all the Valentine legends I've heard, my favorite is the one that martyred St. Valentine because he secretly married…
  • February 13, 2010
    Does the goal of maximum economic efficiency undermine other more important goods?
  • February 8, 2010
    I get somewhat frustrated, at times, with the language of compromise, because it seems to me that if you are,…
  • February 8, 2010
    Could the very thing that makes our lives so easy also be that which makes it so much harder, particularly…
  • February 8, 2010
    Can national pride create national blind spots?