From New Scientist. a special feature on the five ages of the brain. Print or Byte: Won't digital publishing destroy the old-fashioned book? Scott McLemee reads up on "the hidden revolution". Socialism has failed, now capitalism is bankrupt — so what comes next? Eric Hobsbawm wants to know. Taliban, a response to modernity: In its rigidity, the Talibanised society mimics an authenticity that sounds and feels truly pure and Islamic and is greedily imbibed by a population that is hungry for answers. A review of Heidegger: A (Very) Critical Introduction by S. J. McGrath. From The Root, Henry Louis Gates on John Hope Franklin, the prince who refused the kingdom. Colliding anarchistic subcultures, zombified yuppies and the ruins of the welfare state, Laura Oldfield Ford's work opens up the economic and cultural wounds of London's regeneration. From The New Criterion, an essay on the perils of the welfare state: Spiritual enfeeblement & the rise of the “Last Man” in Europe. A review of More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City by William Julius Wilson. A review of Restless Genius: Barney Kilgore, The Wall Street Journal, and the Invention of Modern Journalism by Richard J. Tofel. The introduction to Connections: An Introduction to the Economics of Networks by Sanjeev Goyal.
