From the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal's The University Bookman, a review of Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals and Unadjusted Man in an Age of Overadjustment by Peter Viereck; a review of Every Intellectual’s Big Brother: George Orwell's Literary Siblings by John Rodden; a review of Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher by Peter J. Stanlis and Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington by Matthew Stanley; and the mystery of the universe is not its age, size, depth, or future, but the fact that, within it, we find someone who seeks to know what it is. Siberia is the Pacific Ocean of land: an enormous place that consumes not only much of the planet but the imaginations of many. A review of The Flight of the Intellectuals by Paul Berman and The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism by Theodore Dalrymple. Designers Yalin Fu and Ihsuan Lin recently unveiled a plan for a new skyscraper in Mumbai, but what separates it from others is its occupants: the Moshka Tower is not for the living, but the dead. Researchers find that assuming a powerful body position helps you feel powerful, act more self-confident and raise testosterone. An interview with Thomas Sowell, author of Dismantling America. Here are 5 ways stores use science to trick you into buying crap. Too Big To Be Governed: Financial reform will fail if industry writes the rules. Tim Wu on the future of free speech: Private censorship is as big a threat as government censorship. From The New Yorker, Louis Menand on Dick Cavett and the battles for late night. The arrest of Waleed Hasayin, a blogger who skewers Muhammad, has drawn attention to the collision between a conservative society and the Internet under the Palestinian Authority.
