News, reviews, latest trends, breakthroughs, disputes, and gossip in arts and culture http://aldaily.com/ en-us Copyright 2009 The Chronicle of Higher Education Mon, 13 Jul 2009 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 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT <p>Outlawing payments to kidney donors is ostensibly a way to keep the system fair. All it does is give rich and poor an equally lousy chance of getting a kidney... <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200907u/kidney-donation">more</a> </p> <p>William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus and the first balloonists realized the dreams of Icarus. It was the Age of Wonder... <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bn-review/note.asp?note=23372183">more</a> </p> <p>Over the past 30 years, divisions in Islam have triggered paroxysms of violence. Sectarian, ethnic, and racial hatreds have trumped the ideal of Islamic unity... <a href="http://chronicle.com:80/free/v55/i40/40allawi.htm">more</a> </p> http://aldaily.com Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT <p>Terry Eagleton is vague about God, but rather enjoys it: his contradictions are worn with pride as symbols of a kind of ineffable profundity... <a href="http://newhumanist.org.uk/2085">more</a> </p> <p>Alexander Waugh has but a dim, distant memory of William F. Buckley. As a small angry boy, he thought Buckley was hiding his ping-pong ball... <a href="http://amconmag.com/article/2009/aug/01/00046//">more</a> </p> <p>For 30 years the self-esteem movement has told the young they're perfect in every way, giving us an entire generation with no proper sense of inadequacy. Consider Sarah Palin... <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124716984620819351.html">more</a> </p> http://aldaily.com Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT <p>Terry Eagleton is vague about God, but rather enjoys it: his contradictions are worn with pride as symbols of a kind of ineffable profundity... <a href="http://newhumanist.org.uk/2085">more</a> </p> <p>Alexander Waugh has but a dim, distant memory of William F. Buckely. As a small angry boy, he thought Buckley was hiding his ping-pong ball... <a href="http://amconmag.com/article/2009/aug/01/00046//">more</a> </p> <p>Marshall McLuhan said it was going to be one big global village. He didn't say the villagers would much like each other. But writing and thinking would be like TV!... <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=16697&R=16257652C ">more</a> </p> http://aldaily.com Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT <p>Baseball makes the blood run hot, and yes, Red Sox fans do hate the Yankees. But India and Pakistan nearly went to war over cricket... <a href="http://www.american.com/archive/2009/july/as-american-as-cricket ">more</a> </p> <p>A Hershey's Kiss at 1&#162; is not quite free, but it's still pretty cheap. So what is the difference between Cheap and Free?... <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/books/06maslin.html ">more</a> </p> <p>Christina Hoff Sommers has been called a "thug," a "parasite," and a "female impersonator." But to be accused of practicing "metonymic historiography" - Oh, dear... <a href="http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i40/40sommers.htm">more</a> </p> http://aldaily.com Thu, 9 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT <p>At this point, seasteading is still mostly talk and dreams - especially the dream of living free of government... <a href="http://www.reason.com:80/news/show/133865.html">more</a> </p> <p>Vladimir Tatlin's great unrealized work of art was a monument "made of iron, glass and revolution" It lives on still in the imagination... <a href="http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/merridale_07_09.html">more</a> </p> <p>Americans admire dignity, as well they ought. But the word has become unmoored from any larger set of rules or ethical system. David Brooks explains... <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/opinion/07brooks.html">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.