Saturday, January 28, 2012

The Daily Scholar

Best of Zinsser Fridays

William Zinsser comments on writing, the arts, and popular culture.

Stardust Memories

William Zinsser

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Psycho Babble Thursdays

What Actually Works

Jessica Love

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Science Frictions Wednesdays

Toba

Priscilla Long

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Class Notes Tuesdays

John Dewey

Paula Marantz Cohen

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All Points Mondays

Settling Accounts

William Deresiewicz

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Current Issue

Article

How to Pay for What We Need

Congress could create money, as it did during the Civil War, funding public projects that shock the economy back to life

Richard Striner

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Book Reviews

Big Thinker

The diplomat who argued for “containment”—and lived to regret it

James Gibney

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Book Reviews

The Nature of Things

An ancient poem’s appeal

Sissela Bok

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Book Reviews

Memento Mori

A mother’s grief

Britt Peterson

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Essays

A Jew in the Northwest

Exile, ethnicity, and the search for the perfect futon

William Deresiewicz

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