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TELOSlinks: Recommended Reading

By Brendan O'Connor · Friday, October 19, 2012

Meehan Crist reviews Catharine Malabou’s The New Wounded, translated from the French by Steven Miller, for Book Forum. Malabou tackles Descartes’s distinction between the brain and the mind using developments in neuroscience and psychoanalysis.
“The revolution eats its own”: Jonathan Chait on the decline of moderates in the GOP for The New Republic.
At Aeon Magazine, Michael Ruse wonders how Humanism has come to operate much like the religions and ideologies it set out to undermine.
Ralph Harrington examines the Victorian roots of digital publishing for The Literary Platform.

By Brendan O'Connor · Friday, October 5, 2012

Two essays on pop culture: Kevin Craft explores the development of its representations of the liberal arts for The Atlantic, and Andrew O’Hehir explores its relationship to the American Right for Salon. In some ways, these two articles seem to describe conflicting trends. Is this the case, or is there a connection?
Also at The Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf, with assistance from Orwell, unpacks medical metaphors in the military.
Hugo Koning reviews Emma Stafford’s Herakles, the latest installment in the Routledge series Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World, for the Bryn Mawr Classical Review: “Just as on the divine plane ‘everything begins with Zeus,’ so on the human plane almost all heroes of different generations, tales and locations are somehow connected to Herakles.”