From The American Scholar, purpose-driven life: Evolution does not rob life of meaning, but creates meaning — it also makes possible our own capacity for creativity; the Terminator comes to Wall Street: How computer modeling worsened the financial crisis and what we ought to do about it. A review of Meltdown: A Free Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse by Thomas E. Woods Jr. Bankers vs. Economists: Who deserves more blame for the global economic collapse? One of America’s most-read bloggers is Catholic, conservative, gay, pro-Obama — and from East Grinstead; Johann Hari profiles Andrew Sullivan, a writer with an extraordinary tale to tell. Here are 20 things you didn't know about money. Songs for the Deaf: Benjamin Bartlett Sigerson goes inside the music industry's "loudness wars", including the leading opposition movement that may be our only hope. Frederick Seidel has been called crass, disturbing, a name-dropping, upmarket sinner — and that’s what may make him America’s greatest living poet. Some well-meaning but overpriced utopian futurology: A review of Politics of Fear, Practices of Hope by Stefan Skrimshire. A review of Stealing MySpace: The Battle To Control the Most Popular Website in America by Julia Angwin (and more).
