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April 29, 2005
Weekend reading
Links to interesting essays (in case it rains and you have nothing better to do).
Theodore Dalrymple is a doctor who worked in a British prison. He writes a series called Oh, to be in England for the quarterly City Journal. In last fall's issue, his article was The Frivolity of Evil; in this spring's issue, it was The Roads to Serfdom. These are fairly sobering takes on British society. He has a new book coming out (pictured at right).
I recently came across this essay from 2002, titled Taste for Makers, written by Paul Graham. It's an interesting collection of his observations on what makes a good design - and he knows something about good design.
The last is one I haven't finished called Higher Ed, Inc. by James Twitchell, a professor of English in Florida. Its topic is how higher educational institutions are turning into big businesses.
Posted by joke du jour at April 29, 2005 08:01 PM
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