News, reviews, latest trends, breakthroughs, disputes, and gossip in arts and culture http://aldaily.com/ en-us Copyright 2010 The Chronicle of Higher Education Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:00:02 EDT rss@chronicle.com rss@chronicle.com http://aldaily.com/ald01.gif http://aldaily.com 128 70 Today's News http://aldaily.com Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT <p> Charles Darwin's natural selection is one of the grandest ideas of any age. Herbert Spencer's use of Darwin is quite another story... <a href="http://www.democracyjournal.org/j_wes_ulm_social_darwinism.html">more</a> </p> <p> Mario Savio was a revolutionary, logician, poet, and libertarian - a lightning rod who could not quite conduct the energy he'd attracted... <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100329/saul/single ">more</a> </p> <p> You like pancakes and sausages? Then you are going to love Jimmy Dean's Pancakes & Sausage on a stick. Accept no substitutes... <a href="http://thesmartset.com/article/article03051001.aspx/ ">more</a> </p> http://aldaily.com Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT <p> Charles Darwin's natural selection is one of the grandest ideas of any age. Herbert Spencer's use of Darwin is quite another story... <a href="http://www.democracyjournal.org/j_wes_ulm_social_darwinism.html">more</a> </p> <p> Mario Savio was a revolutionary, logician, poet, and libertarian - a lightning rod who could not quite conduct the energy he'd attracted... <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100329/saul/single ">more</a> </p> <p> You like pancakes and sausages? Then you are going to love Jimmy Dean's Pancakes & Sausage on a stick. Accept no substitutes... <a href="http://thesmartset.com/article/article03051001.aspx/ ">more</a> </p> http://aldaily.com Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT <p> Not your normal workplace. In winter, the Arctic is chaotic, manifold, and cruel in how it metes out death. Which it does, often... <a href="http://thefastertimes.com/slowtravel/2010/03/11/is-your-workplace-as-rough-as-the-arctic/">more</a> </p> <p> Simple-minded moral posturing on Darfur by celebrities and rights activitsts has made the conflict even worse... <a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8277/">more</a> </p> <p> Classical music has become too solemn. Alex Ross wants concert halls to be unpredictable places, in thrall to the wildly diverse personalities of composers and performers alike... <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/mar/08/classical-music-applause-rule-obama">more</a> </p> http://aldaily.com Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT <p>In 1895, Wall Street was making bets as to when the U.S. Treasury would run out of gold and default on its debts. Then J.P. Morgan stepped in... <a href="http://www.americanheritage.com/rss/articles/web/20100308-Gold-Standard-Price-J-P-Morgan-Banking-Bailout-John-Steele-Gordon.shtml">more</a> </p> <p>Given the choice between a middling novel and a middling work of nonfiction, the latter will at least offer a few new facts... <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Literature-for-Real/64453/ ">more</a> </p> <p>The Germans wanted a unified Europe, but they didn't figure on paying their neighbors' bills till the end of time... <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2247257/ ">more</a> ... <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d23c785e-2bb3-11df-a5c7-00144feabdc0.html">more</a> ... The Euro <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,682432,00.html ">is finished</a>. </p> http://aldaily.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT <p>Starbucks is 39 years old now, and like a lot people who reach that age, it's going through a bit of an identity crisis... <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2010/02/09/starbucks-midlife-crisis">more</a> </p> <p>Joan Houlihan's new poems are playful in coinage and raw in imagery, but ultimately graceful and pleasing in rhythm... <a href="http://www.criticalflame.org/verse/0310_bennett.htm">more</a> </p> <p>Evolution lets us see comics, that most mass of the mass arts, in a panoramic human context but also in extreme close-up. Brian Boyd explains... <a href="http://aliceandrews.tumblr.com/ ">more</a> </p> http://aldaily.com New material is added to Arts & Letters Daily six days a week. We continually test links for reliability. Despite our best efforts, links may fail (often only temporarily) without warning. We apologize for any inconvenience. Our motto, "Veritas odit moras," is from line 850 of Seneca's version of Oedipus. It means "Truth hates delay." Arts & Letters Daily is a service of The Chronicle of Higher Education.