http://www.realclearscience.com/ en Copyright 2010 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:43:41 -0400 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 21 May 2013 06:05:18 -0400 05/21/2013/00/00/00 Donald Miller is one of the last great Christian iconoclasts. After growing up in a fundamentalist household in Pearland, Texas, Miller broke free from empty orthodoxy and discovered his true faith while a student at ultra-liberal Reed College in Portland. This journey was recorded in Miller’s 2003 bestseller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality, a memoir that sent shock waves through the Christian world. “Blue Like Jazz” developed such a fan base that its readers crowd-funded more than $300,000 to turn the book into an...]]>http://www.realclearbooks.com/2013/05/21/donald_miller_christian_iconoclast_5790.htmlhttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/19/donald-miller-christian-iconoclast.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/19/donald-miller-christian-iconoclast.html 2005790 AM Update Joshua DuBois, Daily Beast Tue, 21 May 2013 06:29:04 -0400 05/21/2013/00/00/00 Despite my well-deserved international reputation as a coward, I occasionally get into arguments with people, mostly on Facebook where no one can punch you. It was during such an argument recently that someone actually implied that I was a liar, one vice for which I don’t have a reputation, as far as I know. We were discussing…. never mind; that’s another essay. But when she asked me where I got my ideas about right and wrong, I said that I’d read the Bible. My opponent laughed that off. She’d never read the whole Bible, she said, and she was...]]>http://www.realclearbooks.com/2013/05/21/blundering_without_the_bible_5796.htmlhttp://spectator.org/archives/2013/05/21/the-book-we-still-cant-spare 1005796 AM Update Lars Walker, American Spectator Tue, 21 May 2013 06:14:59 -0400 05/21/2013/00/00/00 Some while ago, with reference to Orwell's essay on "Politics and the English language", I addressed the language of the internet, an issue that stubbornly refuses to go away. Perhaps now, more than ever, we need to consider afresh what's happening to English prose in cyberspace.]]>http://www.realclearbooks.com/2013/05/21/george_orwell_meet_the_internet_5793.htmlhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2013/may/20/george-orwell-internet-english-robert-mccrumhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2013/may/20/george-orwell-internet-english-robert-mccrum 1005793 AM Update Robert McCrum, The Guardian Tue, 21 May 2013 06:32:26 -0400 05/21/2013/00/00/00 The introduction to David Cannadine's "The Undivided Past" brandishes dueling epigraphs from Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world . . . " proclaims the quotation from Mr. Bush. "It was 'us versus them.' " Mr. Clinton's words, by contrast, decry the compulsion to "believe our differences are more important than our common humanity." Mr. Cannadine clearly shuns Dubya in favor of Bubba, yet the aim of the British-bred, Cambridge-educated Princeton professor isn't to...]]>http://www.realclearbooks.com/2013/05/21/first_as_tragedy_then_as_cant_5797.htmlhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324482504578453071098757176.htmlhttp://mobile2.wsj.com/device/article.php?mid=1&CALL_URL=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324482504578453071098757176.html 1005797 AM Update Daniel Richter, Wall Street Journal Tue, 21 May 2013 06:39:24 -0400 05/21/2013/00/00/00 If things had gone slightly differently for Kenyan author NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong'o, he might have become a living, breathing vindication of the British Empire's good intentions. Despite having grown up in straitened circumstances on his mother's small agricultural homestead, he was selected on the basis of his test scores to attend a prestigious Rugby-style boarding school for Africans twelve miles outside Nairobi—this at a time when there were not many peasant sons of single mothers at Rugby back in Britain. His earliest attempts at fiction were promoted by the...]]>http://www.realclearbooks.com/2013/05/21/the_british_empire039s_good_intentions_5798.htmlhttp://www.booksandculture.com/articles/2013/mayjune/measure-of-forgiveness.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.booksandculture.com/articles/2013/mayjune/measure-of-forgiveness.html 2005798 AM Update Helen Rittelmeyer, Books & Culture Tue, 21 May 2013 06:11:22 -0400 05/21/2013/00/00/00 In a move to bump up physical book sales, Stephen King will not release an e-book version of his new novel, "Joyland," the Wall Street Journal reports.It’s something of a radical move for the man who stood onstage with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos in 2009 to introduce the Kindle 2.]]>http://www.realclearbooks.com/2013/05/21/no_e-book_for_new_stephen_king_novel_5792.htmlhttp://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-no-ebook-for-stephen-king-new-novel-20130520,0,5980339.storyhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-no-ebook-for-stephen-king-new-novel-20130520,0,5980339.story 1005792 AM Update Jenny Hendrix, Los Angeles Times Tue, 21 May 2013 06:08:24 -0400 05/21/2013/00/00/00 Recently, I took my mom to see The Great Gatsby. As we watched the scene where Nick is asleep on the couch, wan and pale and surrounded by manuscript papers, Mom leaned over to whisper, "I bet that's how you looked when you finished your novel."]]>http://www.realclearbooks.com/2013/05/21/when_you_finish_your_novel_what_then_5791.htmlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/holly-robinson/when-you-finish-your-nove_b_3306292.html?utm_hp_ref=bookshttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/holly-robinson/when-you-finish-your-nove_b_3306292.html?utm_hp_ref=books 1005791 AM Update Holly Robinson, Huffington Post Tue, 21 May 2013 06:43:14 -0400 05/21/2013/00/00/00 Amazon attorneys last week filed a letter with the court asking that it be allowed to redact sensitive business information about its Kindle e-book program gathered as evidence for the upcoming Apple price-fixing trial. Apple attorneys, however, are fighting the effort with a letter of its own, arguing that Amazon does not come close to meeting the legal standard for having the information in question redacted or sealed, and asking the court to grant public access to evidence gathered from Amazon.]]>http://www.realclearbooks.com/2013/05/21/amazon_fights_to_keep_secrets_5799.htmlhttp://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/57308-amazon-fights-to-keep-secrets-in-e-book-trial.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/57308-amazon-fights-to-keep-secrets-in-e-book-trial.html 1005799 AM Update Andrew Albanese, Publishers Weekly Tue, 21 May 2013 06:17:21 -0400 05/21/2013/00/00/00 In Kurt Vonnegut’s 1993 play “Make Up Your Mind,” the character Roland Stackhouse invents a therapy for people who have trouble making decisions. Vonnegut was all too familiar with the syndrome. He wrote several drafts of the play but was unable to settle on a final script. One version was briefly staged in 1993 and then consigned to a drawer with 11 other variations.]]>http://www.realclearbooks.com/2013/05/21/taking_over_for_kurt_vonnegut_5794.htmlhttp://theater.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/theater/a-staging-for-vonneguts-make-up-your-mind.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&ref=books&adxnnlx=1369131336-hNJrGBOo7H4KAPO/gusgcg 1005794 AM Update Patricia Cohen, New York Times Tue, 21 May 2013 06:21:16 -0400 05/21/2013/00/00/00  Mr. Electrico aimed to perform wonders, mostly by manipulating electricity. For one central part of his show, he sat in an electric chair and electrocuted himself, then passed that power out to the audience via a metal sword. On the night Bradbury attended, Mr. Electrico chose him, pressing the sword to the young Bradbury’s skin. His hair standing on end, the boy gazed up at Mr. Electrico, who passed along a two-word directive for a life that would become one of the largest in American letters: “Live forever.”What a blessing to hear those words...]]>http://www.realclearbooks.com/2013/05/21/ray_bradbury_living_forever_5795.htmlhttp://www.avclub.com/articles/why-the-essential-collection-bradbury-stories-expl,97923/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.avclub.com/articles/why-the-essential-collection-bradbury-stories-expl,97923/ 2005795 AM Update Todd VanDerWerff, AV Club