Archive for June, 2010
William Dalrymple: the Af-Pak Fiasco "on its last legs"
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with William Dalrymple. (49 minutes, 22 mb mp3)
William Dalrymple is drawing on a deep well of personal and imperial history in his stark clarification of our American comeuppance in Afghanistan.
“The war has lost all semblance of shape or form,” he observes, at a moment when …
Vijay Iyer’s Life in Music: "Striving is the Back Story…"
Jazz pianist Vijay Iyer brings rare stuff to his music, starting with a Brahmin Indian name and heritage, and a Yale degree in physics.
Bromwich Channels Edmund Burke: "America is out of itself"
David Bromwich channels the cautious conservatism of Edmund Burke, and says America is "out of itself."
Paul Bloom: A Walking Tour of the Cognitive Sciences
Paul Bloom lures you to the frontier in human psychology with ancient moral questions and the evidence of full-bodied human behavior, in his new book How Pleasure Works.
Vishwas Satgar: the Political Economy of FIFA
Vishwas Satgar makes a left-wing South African argument that the World Cup serves FIFA handsomely, but will leave his countrymen in shacks.
Steve Kinzer's 'Reset' Roles for Turkey and Iran
Stephen Kinzer's book "Reset" foresees rising regional powers Turkey and Iran as the foundation of Middle East stability.
This "Year of India" (9): Patrick Heller's Measure of Change
Patrick Heller talks about Kerala, Bangalore, and mainstreaming our vision of India, as part of our series, "This Year of India."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The "Fragility" Crisis is Just Begun
Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks fragility, robustness, hindsight, history, and Black Swans.
