Obama's Dream and Its Contradictions

Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic
A look at Obama's core philosophy, his political appeal and accomplishments, his limitations and the constraints under which he governed.

The No Cloning Theorem

Is cloning possible? Not cloning as in Dolly the sheep, but cloning as in a Star Trek transporter? Here is the real science of it.

Neighborhood Atheism

Baba Brinkman and Greydon Square rap about how to approach the world morally without religion.

Weaponizing Modernist Culture

Alan Wald Against the Current
At first glance, modern art and contemporary imperialism make strange bedfellows. The book under review both charts the history of the CIA's work in promoting US corporate interests through its manipulation of culture--what was then called cultural diplomacy-- while also working to define modernism. The reviewer congratulates the author on his first task, but criticizes him on the second.