Sunday, July 26, 2009

Some Good Reading

* Andrew J. Bacevich looks at the current wars the USA wages in light of Graham Greene's "The Quiet American", here.

* Jessa Crispin reviews two books, "On Kindness" and "What is Good and Why". She examines these books in the framework of the blogosphere and the contemporary world of the World Wide Web as well as in response to world views reaching back to Hobbes that hold that human beings are innately selfish and brutish. We might actually be wired to be kind. Read her review, here.

* More Jessa Crispin: she review two books examining the depression debate, here.

* Like Jessa Crispin? She's calls herself the book slut and her website is here.

* Virginia Postrel illuminates the complexities of the world of kidney donors and recipients, here.

* Rick Reilly says Tiger Woods needs to clean up his behavior on the golf course, here.

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