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When I Was White By Sarah Valentine Chronicle Review July 6, 2015 Family photo Sarah Valentine as a girl, with her two brothers Rachel Dolezal’s recent unmasking as a white woman living as black sparked a debate about the legitimacy of "transracial" experience. I cannot speak for Dolezal or anyone else, but I can state for a fact that racial transition is a valid experience,..

A World Without Work Derek Thompson The Atlantic Monthly July/August 2015 Issue For centuries, experts have predicted that machines would make workers obsolete. That moment may finally be arriving. Could that be a good thing? Adam Levey 1. Youngstown, U.S.A. The end of work is still just a futuristic concept for most of the United States, but it is something like a moment in hi..

The Mystery of Marriage Alice Gregory The Atlantic Monthly July/August 2015 Issue A new book is a cultural scrapbook on the resilience of a fraught institution. A British postcard from the early 1900s advises, “When he deserves it, kiss him.” Simon & Schuster My husband and I got married last fall because we wanted to have a party. I doubt our friends, our family, or anybod..

The Wrong Head Mike Jay London Review of Books, Vol. 37 No. 10, 21 May 2015 ‘Scarcely one year has gone by, and everything has taken on a new countenance.’ Early in the French Revolution, in 1790, Philippe Pinel observed the ‘salutary effects of the progress of liberty’ everywhere he looked. During the Ancien Régime he had seen Paris as an incubator for madness; no..

Remembering Vietnam, But Why Do We Still Stumble Into Futile Wars? by Louis René Beres New English Review(May 2015) Now that more than forty years have passed since the fall of Saigon, it is high time to ask some truly basic questions. No single question could be more necessary than the utterly obvious query: Why does the United States still get itself drawn into misconcei..

Save the Universe by Michael Hanlon AEON 2 April 2015 It is only a matter of time before our Universe goes black, cold and dies. Must this be the end of the road for life? Michael Hanlon is a science journalist whose work has appeared in The Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph, among others. His latest book is In the Interests of Safety (2014), co-written with Tracey Brown. He..

Take me to the death cafe Perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem We are living longer and talking about our final days more—as a new movement showsby Sophie Elmhirst / January 22, 2015 /Prospect Published in Feburuary 2014 issue of Prospect Magazine The town of Vissoie in the Swiss mountains, where Bernard Crettaz, creator of the “death cafe” movement..

The Presence of the Past Roger Cohen The New York Times MAY 18, 2015 As we grow older, the past looms larger. There’s more of it. The past is full of possibility. It is ever-changing, an eddying tide, subject to the gusts — and lacunas — of memory. The future may seem wan by comparison and, for each of us, we know more or less where it ends. With a bang or a whimp..

[문유석 부장판사의 세상일기(31)-④]분쟁을 해결하는 조정위원이야 말로, 어벤저스의 초능력자들2015.06.12 (금) <③편에서 계속>다음으로는 적절한 카리스마다. 양쪽 말을 끝없이 들으며 이리저리 끌려 다니기만 한다고 분쟁이 해결되지는 않는다. 적절한 시점에는 조정위원이 생각하..

김태익의 태평로 아버지 마음 김태익 논설위원실 E-mail : tikim@chosun.com 논설위원 서울대 사대 졸업 입력 : 2014.12.16 05:36 고등학교 때 읽은 안톤 슈낙의 '우리를 슬프게 하는 것들'에는 사춘기 소년을 생각에 잠기게 하는 슬픈 풍경들이 여럿 있었다. 그중 기억에 남아있는 것이 하나 있다. "숱..