From TAS, an article on Edward Abbey, conservative anarchist. Screaming mummies: The entire body is as though agitated from the last movements of agony; the last convulsions of horrid agony can, after thousands of years, still be seen. Crowds of people are often seen as bad for public order, but they have ways of policing themselves that the police might do well to understand. Fifty years seems like a long time, but if you pick up Jacques Barzun’s searching analysis of modern education, The House of Intellect, the half century melts away. More on Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists by Susan Neiman. A review of Intellectuals and their Publics: Perspectives from the Social Sciences. Nassim Nicholas Taleb on ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world. Damon Linker on the future of Christian America. An article on the the "Twitter Revolution" of Moldova's high-tech teens (and more). Watch Before Reading: Usually just one to three minutes long, the best book trailers swiftly inform potential readers of what to expect. A review of Dave Neiwert's The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right. Michael Kinsley on life after newspapers (and a response and a reply). How to stop the drug wars: Prohibition has failed; legalisation is the least bad solution. Notions of history: An interview with Simon Schama. Why do only failed politicians publish good books on their trade?
