News, reviews, latest trends, breakthroughs, disputes, and gossip in arts and culture http://aldaily.com/ en-us Copyright 2009 The Chronicle of Higher Education Mon, 5 Jan 2009 07:00:08 EDT rss@chronicle.com rss@chronicle.com http://aldaily.com/ald01.gif http://aldaily.com 128 70 Today's News http://aldaily.com Mon, 5 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EDT <p>While impoverished Rwandans bear the costs of conservation and saving the gorillas, the national tourism industry reaps millions... <a href="http://www.american.com/archive/2009/gorillas-in-their-midst">more</a> </p> <p>When Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, many Britons thought it was the beginning of the end of their empire. Still, it took a while... <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/04/the-rise-demise-of-an-empire/ ">more</a> </p> <p>If sociologists ignore the genetic components of human behavior and sociality, will other academics - and the wider world - ignore sociology?... <a href="http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i18/18b00601.htm">more</a> </p> http://aldaily.com Sun, 4 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EDT <p>Simply vilifying the rich, with strikes and class violence, have lost their lustre for Venezuelans. After Hugo Ch&aacute;vez, maybe real democracy... <a href="http://www.standpointmag.co.uk:80/node/722/full ">more</a> </p> <p>Kafkaesque: the nonchalant intrusion of the bizarre and horrible into everyday life, the subjection of ordinary people to an inscrutable fate... <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/books/review/Kirsch-t.html?pagewanted=all">more</a> </p> <p>Time is the stuff of music: it plays with the rhythm of experience. If the world of physics is a space-time continuum, music is a pitch-time continuum... <a href="http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/723/full">more</a> </p> http://aldaily.com Sat, 3 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EDT <p>The Stilwell Road: more than a thousand U.S. troops died building the road in Burma. For some in China and India today, this neglected route is a lifeline... <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fg-road30-2008dec30,0,7129813,full.story">more</a> </p> <p>Kafkaesque: the nonchalant intrusion of the bizarre and horrible into everyday life, the subjection of ordinary people to an inscrutable fate... <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/books/review/Kirsch-t.html?pagewanted=all">more</a> </p> <p>Time is the stuff of music: it plays with the rhythm of experience. If the world of physics is a space-time continuum, music is a pitch-time continuum... <a href="http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/723/full">more</a> </p> http://aldaily.com Fri, 2 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EDT <p> From early on, Samuel Huntington drew vociferous critics, but that is the mark of a scholar with an important message, says Francis Fukuyama... <a href="http://the-american-interest.com/contd/?p=688 ">more</a> </p> <p> How would William Randolph Hearst have reacted to the rise of the Internet? He knew war and politics would still make or break a news company... <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123033942056536545.html">more</a> </p> <p> Last June, one expert told the public that the art market only goes up: "For the first time since 1914, we are in a non-cyclical market." Tulips, anyone?... <a href="http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-art-market-bubble-3978">more</a> </p> http://aldaily.com Thu, 1 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EDT <p>Pro-Stalinist books - journalism, fiction, pseudo-history - are found all over the bookstalls of Russia today. Even school history texts... <a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/russia/article/The-Embrace-of-Stalinism">more</a> </p> <p>Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed was written for those who, like the author, were committed both to faith and reason... <a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/maimonides-by-joel-l--kraemer-13880">more</a> </p> <p>Printing - electricity - radio - antibiotics: after them, nothing was the same. Intellectual impresario John Brockman asks a select group of thinkers, "What will change everything?"... <a href="http://www.edge.org:80/q2009/q09_print.html">more</a> </p> http://aldaily.com New material is added to Arts & Letters Daily six days a week. We continually test links for reliability. Despite our best efforts, links may fail (often only temporarily) without warning. We apologize for any inconvenience. Our motto, "Veritas odit moras," is from line 850 of Seneca's version of Oedipus. It means "Truth hates delay." Arts & Letters Daily is a service of The Chronicle of Higher Education.