How to Win a Cosmic War

How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror
by Reza Aslan

There are places where the multiplicity of our modern identities is neatly reduced: public restrooms (male or female), invite-only parties (in or out), tax forms (upper, lower, middle brackets). For Reza Aslan the airport is such a place: an “identity directory” in which “we are most determinately defined, registered, and catalogued before being apportioned into separate queues, each according to nationality.”

Aslan begins two chapters of his How to Win a Cosmic War …

April 27, 2009

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Birdscapes

April 24, 2009

Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience
by Jeremy Mynott

Robins are a well-liked bird, as Jeremy Mynott acknowledges: poets pen odes to them, their name graces folk heroes and British …

Cathedrals of Science

April 20, 2009

Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry
by Patrick Coffey

With physicists and evolutionary biologists routinely hitting bestseller lists, chemistry can start to seem an unsexy scientific …

The Well-Dressed Ape

April 17, 2009

The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself
by Hannah Holmes

It turns out that a lot of human behavior and biology is revealed in one of our most common acts: …

The Democracy Index

April 15, 2009

The Democracy Index: Why Our Election System Is Failing and How to Fix It
by Heather K. Gerken

About a year ago, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to uphold an Indiana …

A Pint of Plain

April 13, 2009

A Pint of Plain: Tradition, Change, and the Fate of the Irish Pub
by Bill Barich

That writers and alcohol go together like gin and tonic might be true around the …

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