Apocalypse Savings- June 3, 2008 "The mind is capable of artful compartmentalisations; in one moment, a man might confidently believe in predictions of Armageddon in his lifetime, and in the next, he might pick up the phone to inquire about a savings fund for his grandchildren's college education or approve of long-term measures to slow global warming." Novelist Ian McEwanreads the story of the end of the world.http://www.therevealer.org/archives/timeless_003057.php Machine Politics- June 3, 2008 Sharlet: WNYC's Leonard Lopate and I discuss "maximalism," cronyism, and The Family....http://www.therevealer.org/archives/today_003056.php You Say Journalism, I Say Betrayal- June 3, 2008 Sharlet: Harper's editor Bill Wasik and I talk about The Family and how the article we collaborated on as author and editor five years became a book. Here's an excerpt.http://www.therevealer.org/archives/timely_003055.php Obama's Exorcism- June 3, 2008 It looks like it's the end of the line for Clinton and the beginning of a new battle for Obama, and that means it's time for the press to do what it does best -- tidy up the tale, craft a chronicle of inevitability, obscure its own role in the political process...http://www.therevealer.org/archives/timely_003054.php |