links for 2009-11-09

• Digital Camera Photographer of the Year 2009: This is Britain- editor's choice shortlist – Telegraph
• Shoot First, Mumble Later: Mobiles and Tamiflu
• On the Bookshelf – by Josh Lambert > Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life
• You make a few distinctions. You clarify a few concepts. It’s a living.
• LÉVI-STRAUSS AND PHILOSOPHY
• In Socrates' Wake: The noble lie I tell myself
• The Oxonian Review » On a Socialist Camping Trip
• The Oxonian Review » Cicero Retold
• The Oxonian Review » The Ends of Justice
• Jabberwock: 'Continents' revisited: meeting Ved Mehta
• http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2009/200910/news27/20091027-14ee.html
• Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question – NYTimes.com
• Akhond of Swat: Food column: Sliced baboon for breakfast?

links for 2009-11-08

• http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2009/200910/news27/20091027-14ee.html
• Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question – NYTimes.com
• Akhond of Swat: Food column: Sliced baboon for breakfast?
• Akhond of Swat: Ved Mehta: The time traveller's life
• The flame that was snuffed out by freedom | Roger Scruton – Times Online
• The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen | Book review | Books | The Guardian
• Hate the EU? Then I beg you to vote Tory – Telegraph
• The many gods of Ilford | Abhinav Ramnarayan | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
• The Change We Need? « Bad Conscience
• Al Jazeera English – Focus – Jewish directors challenge Israel
• Book Review – 'Samuel Johnson – A Life,' by David Nokes – Review – NYTimes.com
• Exhibition Review – 'A Woman’s Wit – Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy' – Morgan Library Offers a Jane Austen Exhibition – NYTimes.com
• Gaza, Gilad Shalit, Hamas, and Israel : The New Yorker

links for 2009-11-07

• NYU > Philosophy > 2009 Modern Conference
• New Statesman – Bright Star (PG)
• Stefan Collini on The Letters of TS Eliot, Vol 2 | Books | The Guardian
• American, for better or worse | Michael Tomasky | Comment is free | The Guardian
• Skiing between yurts in your own private Idaho | Travel | The Guardian
• Spare us the phoney poppy apoplexy | Marina Hyde | Football | guardian.co.uk
• Haus proud: The women of Bauhaus | Art and design | The Guardian
• How to Write a Great Novel: Junot Diaz, Anne Rice, Margaret Atwood and Other Authors Tell – WSJ.com
• Plan B: Cry Me A River
• Better the broken Windows than life with the Mac monks

links for 2009-11-06

• Rory Stewart – one Tory I'd vote for| Deborah Orr | Politics | The Guardian

links for 2009-11-05

• Experimental Philosophy: Are People Actually Moral Objectivists?
• Ringtones Rock Ramallah – by Jesse Oxfeld > Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life
• הרינגטון המבוקש בגדה: אללהו אכבר – פוליטי מדיני – הארץ
• Founding Father – by Jenna Weissman Joselit > Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life
• kenodoxia: What is a university?
• Biographical sketch of Ayn Rand | Harvard Magazine Nov-Dec 2009
• Inkling Magazine – The (Real) Sound of Silence
• Logic Matters: Ruse gets a beta minus.
• 100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do (Part 1) – You’re the Boss Blog – NYTimes.com

links for 2009-11-04

• Renowned French Jewish intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss dies at 100 – Haaretz – Israel News
• Nothing to sniff at: Clean smells inspire virtue – Behavior- msnbc.com
• Trier and Error « Going Anon and on
• Anti-History / In Another Life: Sumanta Banerjee 's excellent article
• Son of Bosey: The ultimate celebrity endorsement for HDTV
• The Hindu : Literary Review / Tribute : Remembering Faiz
• Plato—Leontius’s Corpses (Harper's Magazine)
• America, stop sucking up to Israel – Haaretz – Israel News
• Our Dwindling Email Privacy—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)
• Claude Lévi-Strauss obituary | Science | The Guardian
• The return of tracksuit bottoms | Life and style | The Guardian
• Phys Ed: Why Doesn’t Exercise Lead to Weight Loss? – Well Blog – NYTimes.com
• Theater Review – 'Nightingale' – Lynn Redgrave Explores Life of Beatrice Kempson – NYTimes.com
• Inside Out | Bathrooms Are Rooms, Too – The Moment Blog – NYTimes.com
• Why does Hollywood keep making the same films? | Joe Queenan | Film | The Guardian
• On the Anthropology of Levi-Strauss « American Anthropological Association
• Jewish Girls Not Immune to Self-Destructive Behaviors – by Hadara Graubart > Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life
• French anthropologist Levi-Strauss dies at 100| Lifestyle| Reuters
• Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com

links for 2009-11-03

• Findings – Ethnographic Study Looks at Gossip in the Workplace – NYTimes.com
• The reopening of The Ashmolean, review – Telegraph
• Hiking Into History – England’s Ancient Ridgeway Trail – NYTimes.com
• Why Is the Millionaire Zac Goldsmith Running for Parliament? – NYTimes.com
• Jennifer's Body: a feminist slasher film? Really? | Film | The Guardian
• Interested in Legal Philosophy: Just a PhD in Philosophy, or a JD as Well?

links for 2009-11-02

• On the Bookshelf – by Josh Lambert > Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life
• Facts and Values — Crooked Timber
• BBC NEWS | England | Oxfordshire | City reveals 'Bronze Age site'
• News: 'Research Confidential' – Inside Higher Ed

links for 2009-11-01

• New Statesman – The Thick of It
• New Statesman – An Education (12A)/Taking Woodstock (15)
• Rory Stewart: A new kind of Tory – Telegraph
• 'Sheepish' Stephen Fry drops Twitter quit threat | Media | guardian.co.uk
• The Hindu : Arts / Movies : Aishwarya Rai turns 36
• LRB · Jenny Diski · Diary
• A Don's Life by Mary Beard – Times Online – WBLG: Do universities need Mandelson's 'consumer revolution'?

links for 2009-10-31

• Professionalization in the academy | Harvard Magazine Nov-Dec 2009
• Former royal tutor Rory Stewart selected for safe Tory seat | Politics | guardian.co.uk
• NYer cartoon
• Civilisation: A Personal View Celebrated Western Culture, Says Sightings Columnist Terry Teachout – WSJ.com
• Troubling new revelations about Arendt and Heidegger. – By Ron Rosenbaum – Slate Magazine
• On Trick or Treating « Bad Conscience
• Under a Spell – by Peter Bebergal > Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life
• Bering in Mind: Are there asexuals among us? On the possibility of a "fourth" sexual orientation
• Letters – The Fact of Evolution – NYTimes.com
• Book Review – 'Ayn Rand and the World She Made,' by Anne C.­Heller – Review – NYTimes.com
• Rana Dasgupta talks to Richard Lea | Books | guardian.co.uk
• Letters: Scientists Respond to Our Review of Richard Dawkins’s ‘Greatest Show on Earth’ – Paper Cuts Blog – NYTimes.com
• BBC NEWS | Politics | Never-ending sales 'have to stop'
• FT.com / UK – Fierce competition for places leads to rise in synagogue attendance
• U.S. Religious Freedom Report: Israel – by Orlee Maimon > Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life
• Putting Caste on Notice
• Hebrew, Hindi, other scripts get Web address nod – Yahoo! News
• Gender Bias Learning Project
• Dissent Magazine