Links tagged with “nyrb”
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Can Science Explain Religion? | The New York Review of Books
I remember finding this interesting when I read it, but was offline at the time. Similarities and things between the major religions.
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A Great Conservationist, by Jingo - The New York Review of Books
Enjoyed this about Theodore Roosevelt. I didn’t know he was so involved with creating national parks etc. Subscribers only.
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When Science & Poetry Were Friends - The New York Review of Books
I liked this Freeman Dyson article from last year, recounting the scientific world of 1770-1830 and comparing it to today.
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The Question of Global Warming - The New York Review of Books
I found this Freeman Dyson article interesting because it isn’t written from one of the two usual polar extremes of the global warming arguments.
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The New York Review of Books: The Case for Decency
“The belief in unity that has fueled so many utopian dreams is an effort to reconcile the irreconcilable that ends in repression. Berlin suggests we renounce this venerable faith, and learn how to live with intractable conflict.” (Subscribers only)
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The New York Review of Books: Cosmopolitans
Ethics, identity, violence, justice. “Why do we succumb so readily to appeals based on the irrational forms of identity — ethnic, racial, religious — rather than to appeals based on the rational forms — economic above all?”
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The New York Review of Books: Progressive but Not Liberal
I love stuff like this - moralism, justice, etc. But I can rarely concentrate enough to understand it fully. Subscribers only.
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The New York Review of Books: City Lights
Review of Tristram Hunt’s ‘Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City’. Were things better when wealthy Victorians did things for the plebs? (Subscribers only unfortunately)
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The New York Review of Books: Jimmy Carter & the Culture of Death
Lots of bits in this review of Carter’s book ‘Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis’ that I circled.
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The New York Review of Books: The Way to a Fair Deal
Interesting review of Benjamin M. Friedman’s ‘The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth’ (subscribers only).
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The New York Review of Books: The Coming Meltdown
I underlined this review of two books on environmental disaster when I read it. Not sure why now, but still.