tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58131092011-08-16T20:07:42.976-07:00Milt's FileA file of links relating to Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg, a talk show on Chicago's WGN Radio.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comBlogger41711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1123529222644659652005-08-08T12:24:00.000-07:002005-11-15T13:54:50.353-08:00NOTICE: Effective August 8, 2005, Milt's File has moved to a new home: miltsfile.com. Please update your bookmarks, favorites lists, and lists of links.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1123278042083149732005-08-05T14:45:00.000-07:002005-11-15T13:56:04.286-08:00Tonight on Extension 720: Tomorrow marks the sixtieth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima—the first nuclear attack that not only helped bring about the end of World War II, but also launched a new era in political history. It kicked off the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, beginning the Cold War and fostering the necessary rise of strategic theory. Tonight after the 6Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1123277886299716152005-08-05T14:43:00.000-07:002005-08-05T14:38:06.300-07:00PALESTINE IS NOT A MUSLIM ISSUE...says a young Arab journalist in a welcome analysis of the way in which Islamic extremists of the Wahabist variety have tried to turn the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to their own purposes.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1123277861768790672005-08-05T14:41:00.000-07:002005-08-05T14:37:41.770-07:00A WAY OUT OF THE STEM CELL IMPASSE...is proposed, with his usual wisdom and balance, by Charles Krauthammer who is a member of the President's Council on Bioethics. Our recent conversation with Leon Kass, the Council's chairman, can be heard here.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1123277826605705432005-08-05T14:39:00.000-07:002005-08-05T14:37:06.606-07:00VICTOR DAVIS HANSON PONDERS, AS WE ALL DO...the motivated transformation of Hillary Rodham Clinton. A recent Extension 720 conversation with Hanson is available here.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1123277789552918402005-08-05T14:37:00.000-07:002005-08-05T14:36:29.553-07:00FOUR COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT EVOLUTION...are addressed and effectively clarified in this valuable article from the Skeptical Inquirer.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1123277695464880672005-08-05T14:36:00.000-07:002005-08-05T14:34:55.466-07:00THE LATEST VENTURE OF AL GORE...is the new TV "news service" called Current. We have looked at it as has the unidentified critic from the Wall Street Journal. We agree with the WSJ..and then some!Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1123277653528534732005-08-05T14:34:00.000-07:002005-08-05T14:34:13.530-07:00THE CASE OF THE FORMER NAZI PROPAGANDIST...who taught at Yale until his cover was blown (as Paul DeMan's was not) and who had Bill Buckley pleading for him in letters referred to young John Roberts! It is all explained in this interesting article from the New York Sun.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1123277626425637592005-08-05T14:33:00.000-07:002005-08-05T14:33:46.426-07:00WONDERFUL CUBAN MUSIC...in many categories (bolero, guaracha, son, guajira, etc.) is available on this great site. Don't miss the Sexteto Occidente.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122948695910507982005-08-01T19:16:00.000-07:002005-08-01T19:11:35.913-07:00"USEFUL IDIOTS" IN THE UK...are making it possible and plausible for Islamic terrorists to ply their trade. So says Anthony Browne, European Correspondent for the Times of London in this strongly stated indictment.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122948646645515652005-08-01T19:15:00.000-07:002005-08-01T19:10:46.646-07:00DOES HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON HAVE A PRESIDENTIAL STRATEGY? Yes, of course. She is "triangulating" and trying to move the DLC to the left and the Democratic left to the right...and, that accomplished, she will be the standard bearer for the newly unified party. Ron Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times asks whether it will work and thinks...uh, well maybe it will but, then again, maybe it will wreck Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122948617203122732005-08-01T19:14:00.000-07:002005-08-01T19:10:17.206-07:00WHY DID WE DROP THE NUCLEAR BOMB ON HIROSHIMA? That question still sets historians arguing over alternative interpretations. When we discuss that on Extension 720 this coming Friday, we will need to evaluate the revelations supplied in this stunning article from the current issue of the Weekly Standard.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122948583929631282005-08-01T19:13:00.000-07:002005-08-01T19:09:43.930-07:00AND SPEAKING OF HISTORICAL CONTROVERSIES...when, if ever, will the conspiracy interpretations of the Kennedy assasination be put to rest? Here's how one "believer" was cured of his case of conspiraphilia. The article is from a recent issue of the Skeptical Inquirer.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122948563890043662005-08-01T19:12:00.000-07:002005-08-01T19:09:23.890-07:00KNOCKING DOWN TWO OTHER CONSPIRACY THEORIES...is the job undertaken here (and elegantly performed) by the British military historian, Sir Lawrence Freedman.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122948534838427902005-08-01T19:11:00.000-07:002005-08-01T19:22:50.296-07:00HAROLD EVANS LIKES THE U.S...and will be telling the world about us through the vehicle of the BBC, as did his predecesor, Alistair Cooke. For an earlier sample of his broadcasting prowess here is a short excerpt of a conversation that we had with Sir Harold a little while ago.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122948494229939172005-08-01T19:10:00.000-07:002005-08-01T19:08:14.230-07:00PAT MOYNIHAN WAS RIGHT! When, forty years ago (!!) he told it like it was about the black family...says Kay Hymowitz in this penetrating analysis of the persisting problem of "mother-only families" and the failure of liberal social scientists and politicians to face reality. This important article has just appeared in the new issue of City Journal.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122948457959053972005-08-01T19:09:00.000-07:002005-08-01T19:07:37.960-07:00IF ONLY LARRY SUMMERS HAD HAD THE GUTS TO RESIGN!! That--or so thinks the aggrieved academic who is proprietor of this place--would have been the honorable and effective response once the p.c. battalions at Harvard descended upon him. Instead, he stayed and tried to placate. The consequences, as detailed here by Heather MacDonald, are wasteful both of Harvard's wealth and its reputation. An Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122948417816641362005-08-01T19:08:00.000-07:002005-08-01T19:06:57.816-07:00THIS REPLACES THE BEST NEWS CHANNEL ON CABLE TV? Why, exactly? We looked at it today and were strongly underwhelmed. Here's the background story on Al Gore's long-heralded venture into something called "internet TV."Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122948386456885912005-08-01T19:07:00.000-07:002005-08-01T19:06:26.456-07:00GRAND THEFT AUTO AND THE "UNLOCKED SEX SCENES"...are providing something like a political opportunity for Hillary Clinton and other "liberals" who want to establish their bona fides as "traditional" moralists. The BBC reports on this latest use of indignation as a political gambit.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122948365799949812005-08-01T19:06:00.000-07:002005-08-01T19:06:05.803-07:00HOW WINE (GOOD IF NOT GREAT) CAME TO CALIFORNIA...is a saga told by some recent books here under review at the San Francisco Chronicle. Or, are some of them great enough to challenge Chateau Millou le Grenouille, 1964?Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122948339428846902005-08-01T19:05:00.000-07:002005-08-01T19:05:39.450-07:00A GREAT COUNT BASIE COLLECTION...is available here. Just be sure to scroll down and then begin with the live and long-form recording of Everyday I Have The Blues with Joe Williams.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122671294111565452005-07-29T14:08:00.000-07:002005-07-29T14:08:14.113-07:00TODAY'S ACT IN THE CHICAGO SCANDALS VAUDEVILLE...is given the full and devastating attention of John Kass in this column from today's Chicago Tribune. Tonight on Extension 720, three expert observers of our town's unraveling dishonor will examine the still developing revelations and will attempt to answer the ultimate question: How high does it go? More information on tonight's show is available Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122671125108780532005-07-29T14:05:00.000-07:002005-07-29T14:05:25.110-07:00THE THREAT OF SHARIYA IN PALESTINE...lurks in the background as the secular, post-intifada state begins to emerge. This story from Ha'aretz points up divisions between Palestinian intellectuals and artists and the "Talibanites."Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122671080428043432005-07-29T14:04:00.000-07:002005-07-29T14:04:40.430-07:00A BRITAIN-HATING MUSLIM BRIT SPEAKS...to a sensitive interviewer from Prospect magazine who thinks that his subject is representative of a large portion of Pakistani-British youth.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122671008014607402005-07-29T14:03:00.000-07:002005-07-29T14:03:28.016-07:00A BROUHAHA AT MSNBC...broke out on camera yesterday but despite that (or because of that) we learn some interesting things here about the "sophisticated" Islamic hard line from one of its British spokesmen, Azzam Tamimi.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122670957866067162005-07-29T14:02:00.000-07:002005-07-29T14:02:37.866-07:00THE STATELY MARCH OF HILLARY CLINTON TOWARD THE CENTER...went a few steps forward at the Columbus meeting of the Democratic Leadership Council. Carl Leubsdorf, Washington Bureau Chief for the Dallas Morning News provides the full details.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122670893743996142005-07-29T14:01:00.000-07:002005-07-29T14:01:33.746-07:00THE PERPETRATORS OF THE HOLOCAUST...still defy easy comprehension though, by now, they have been studied by three generations of historians. Members of that newest generation have contributed to an anthology that is reviewed here with commendation and ferocity.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122670820512407232005-07-29T14:00:00.000-07:002005-07-29T14:00:20.513-07:00BEETHOVEN RULES! At least when it comes to the free downloads available at the BBC. Among others that he beats are Bono and Paul McCartney as demonstrated by the data reported here in the U.K. Guardian.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122670789970141722005-07-29T13:59:00.000-07:002005-07-29T13:59:49.973-07:00NO ONE EVER DID IT BETTER THAN THE MILLS BROTHERS: The "it" being vocal jazz quartet singing in perfect close harmony. Here they are doing five of their classic tunes.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122333092377722682005-07-25T16:17:00.000-07:002005-07-25T16:11:32.380-07:00THE TERRORIST POTENTIAL IN BRITAIN...is disturbingly high as demonstrated here by Dan Pipes as he reviews some devastating new opinion surveys reporting on how U.K. Muslims view the bombings and their lives in the "decadent west."Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122333068238473602005-07-25T16:16:00.000-07:002005-07-25T16:11:08.243-07:00NOMINATING JOHN ROBERTS AND OUTFOXING THE BBC: The Beeb's man in Washington got flummoxed by the diversionary attention given to two female judges...and that seems to be his main complaint about Mr. Justice (to be) Roberts.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122333045361347472005-07-25T16:15:00.000-07:002005-07-25T16:10:45.363-07:00SITUATION NORMAL IN ILLINOIS: THE POLITICAL INDICTMENTS OF THE WEEK!! For those readers beyond our home-base state, the Illinois Leader is always on the corruption case...and there's always plenty to keep them eternally attentive.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122333021366691602005-07-25T16:14:00.000-07:002005-07-25T16:10:21.366-07:00AND SPEAKING OF CORRUPTION...Novosti is doing for Russia what the Illinois Leader is doing for Springfield and Chicago. And one must grudgingly concede that, for now, the Russkis are in the lead.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122332995443258832005-07-25T16:13:00.000-07:002005-07-25T16:09:55.446-07:00THE COMING HUNGARIAN PRESIDENT OF FRANCE...is Nicolas Sarkozy. Or, so one hopes after reading articles--and there have been quite a few--like this one from the current issue of Foreign Policy.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122332967747087032005-07-25T16:12:00.000-07:002005-07-25T16:09:27.750-07:00SEX AND VIOLENCE AND HILLARY AND JOHN: An Orlando Sentinel columnist examines the positioning on (and in) soft porn of two leading presidential contenders. Has it come to this?Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122332891750737152005-07-25T16:11:00.000-07:002005-07-25T16:08:11.753-07:00ARE CATHOLICISM AND EVOLUTIONARY THEORY COMPATIBLE? Pope John Paul II said they were. Now, a ranking cardinal in Vienna (who is also closely connected to the new pope) says "aber nichtwahr." This article from Der Spiegel suggests a revisionary struggle to come.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122332871604799502005-07-25T16:10:00.000-07:002005-07-25T16:07:51.606-07:00WHAT'S SO GOOD ABOUT HIGH INTELLIGENCE? The question sounds naive but is artfully asked and intelligently pursued in this article by the editor of the Wilson Quarterly.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122332849974437472005-07-25T16:09:00.000-07:002005-07-25T16:07:29.976-07:00THE LATEST ANTI-SPAM PROGRAM...is described here at New Scientist. Is there any reason to think that it will work more effectively than all the other recent failures? Opinion on this matter would be welcome here as commentary.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122332815208869782005-07-25T16:08:00.000-07:002005-07-25T16:06:55.210-07:00PRAYING FOR HEART PATIENTS: Does it produce any positive effect? Despite claims based on an earlier study (which, according to this critique, were unjustified by the data) a new study has now been reported. Apparently, the results are even more unimpressive...but, say the skeptics, the quest for proof of the medical value of intercessionary prayer will continue because the hypothesis is "Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122332779923340992005-07-25T16:07:00.000-07:002005-07-25T16:06:19.926-07:00WHAT WERE THE CRUSADES REALLY ABOUT? The question is of more than mere academic or historiographic interest at a time when the Jihadists label the West as "Crusaders." Some important new books bearing upon the real sources and purposes of the Crusades are reviewed here in a fine essay from First Things.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122332740332358482005-07-25T16:06:00.000-07:002005-07-28T13:47:03.113-07:00HOW FREE IS "SPEECH" AT THIS NEW JERSEY CENTER OF HIGHER LEARNING? No, its not Princeton or Rutgers. It's William Paterson University!! And their administrators ought to be ashamed of themselves and/or subjected to a corrective course in "diversity of opinion." This latest bit of pc idiocy is reported in a somewhat infuriating item from Erin O'Connor's great academic blog, Critical Mass.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122332710391546192005-07-25T16:05:00.000-07:002005-07-25T16:05:10.393-07:00FIRING THODORE DALRYMPLE...would have to be one of the most stupid things that an editor could do. And--as does now appear--that is just what the new editor of U.K. Telegraph has done. Here is Dalrymple's meditation on the matter, written with his usual easy eloquence and with, as well, some confessed (and quite justifiable!) resentment.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1122332684505616702005-07-25T16:04:00.000-07:002005-07-25T16:04:44.523-07:00THE SOLO CONTRABASS: A large "classical" literature for the base fiddle is available for the playing. Here, various students in the Berlin doublebass class of Professor Michael B. Wolf are heard in pleasing--sometimes rather astonishing--performance.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121713291295656842005-07-18T12:01:00.000-07:002005-07-18T12:01:31.296-07:00A GRIM EVALUATION OF REALITY...in the wake of the London bombings is given here by John O'Sullivan of the National Review who says that the Brits are going to have to stop kidding themselves about their Islamic population.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121713267946374432005-07-18T12:00:00.000-07:002005-07-18T12:01:07.950-07:00THE PROPER LIMITS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM...are examined and redefined in a recent book by a University of Chicago scholar who gets a favorable review from Christopher Caldwell of the Weekly Standard. This should generate some strong argument if anyone, other than Divinity School academics pay attention.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121713115259568552005-07-18T11:59:00.000-07:002005-07-18T11:58:35.260-07:00PUT THE BLAME ON PLAME...or, at least, on her husband and his sponsors. So says Mark Steyn in this strongly written column from yesterday's Chicago Sun-Times.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121713090088598522005-07-18T11:58:00.000-07:002005-07-18T11:58:10.090-07:00THE LADY FROM DAVENPORT HAS HER SAY...and, we think, she says it well if rather too simply for the more "sophisticated." Nor does she disappoint those who seek brevity as an accompaniment of wit.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121713063526736742005-07-18T11:57:00.000-07:002005-07-18T11:57:43.526-07:00THE RAPID RISE OF COMPUTER CRIME...is documented in this story from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A charming touch is that the expert quoted here from the Federal Trade Commission is Mr. Orson Swindle!Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121712946977568682005-07-18T11:56:00.000-07:002005-07-18T11:55:46.980-07:00"DON'T BE STUPID...instead take one of our pills," may be the message that some pharmaceutical outfits may be directing at us within a few years. Is this mere fancy, preliminary hype or a high-probability prediction of things to come. Read on in this story from the U.K. Guardian.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121712916358341622005-07-18T11:55:00.000-07:002005-07-18T11:55:16.360-07:00EVOLUTION AT WORK...in the coming of the tuskless elephant. This brief story from China demonstrates natural selection at work...as facilitated by the poachers who kill the big-tusked males.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121712894294066542005-07-18T11:54:00.000-07:002005-07-18T11:54:54.296-07:00THE ISRAELOPHOBE IS A PLAGIARIST...says Alan Dershowitz in a bitter commentary on the man who runs the Middle East Studies program at Columbia University...and who used to do the same at the University of Chicago. It is part of the larger crisis that has developed over what they teach and whom they insult in those classes on Morningside Heights.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121712708762645592005-07-18T11:51:00.000-07:002005-07-18T11:51:48.763-07:00RICHARD FEYNMAN IS APPRECIATED...by Anthony Daniels who is a good friend of Theodore Dalrymple...and, in fact, IS Theodore Dalrymple.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121712682867371562005-07-18T11:50:00.000-07:002005-07-18T11:51:22.870-07:00THE VERY RICH ARE DIFFERENT FROM US....or, at least, very rich men are according to a recent study on the correlations between sexual activity and wealth. Before the BBC tells it all, here's a preview from The Australian.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121712575404202732005-07-18T11:49:00.000-07:002005-07-18T11:49:35.406-07:00IS THE FAT DUCK REALLY THE BEST RESTAURANT IN THE WORLD? So says Restaurant magazine (and the 600 chefs they polled) about the place that perfected bacon and egg ice cream!! We kid you not.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121712405234021582005-07-18T11:46:00.000-07:002005-07-18T11:46:45.236-07:00BUT ONE FAMOUS GERMAN CHEF DISSENTS...and, after visiting the Fat Duck, offered this account and these dissenting judgments. Of course, the Germans never were particularly keen on a dinner that didn't feature Goose, spaetzle or Grundmachterassenfleisch.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121712289304097842005-07-18T11:44:00.000-07:002005-07-18T11:44:49.316-07:00PIANO (FOUR HANDS) AND CHORUS...is one of the combinations in this unusual concert from Lugano. Brahms is the source of that one. Also to be heard are other striking compositions by Brahms, Brahms and Brahms.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121375768752124962005-07-14T14:16:00.000-07:002005-07-14T14:16:08.756-07:00A WAY OUT OF THE STEM-CELL IMPASSE...is suggested in this recent Washington Post op-ed by the man at the center of the controversy, Leon Kass, chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics. Dr. Kass is our guest tonight on Extension 720 and can be heard here at 9 p.m., central time.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121375728700408732005-07-14T14:15:00.000-07:002005-07-14T14:15:28.703-07:00WAS THE SUICIDE BOMBING A FORM OF PEDAGOGY? One of the bombers turns out to have been a teacher well-regarded for his helping attitude toward disabled children!! This account from Sky News in the U.K. conveys the latest findings and affords a rich set of linked articles.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121375695582617732005-07-14T14:14:00.000-07:002005-07-14T14:14:55.583-07:00AND THEN THERE WAS HASIB HUSSAIN...the bomber who once aspired to be an English cricketer. This brief biography was published today by the U.K. Independent.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121375652024377492005-07-14T14:13:00.000-07:002005-07-14T14:14:12.026-07:00BEHIND THE BOMBERS: JAMAATI ISLAM...which features a theology as regressive and an anti-western program as murderous as are found in its near-relative, Wahabbism. This brief article by Stephen Schwartz in the Weekly Standard is of prime importance.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121375568908689332005-07-14T14:12:00.000-07:002005-07-14T14:12:48.910-07:00ED KOCH ENDORSES SAM HUNTINGTON...the latter being the author of the "Clash of Civilizations" thesis. Whatever the former mayor of New York lacks in nuance he makes up in forceful clarity.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121375423300260602005-07-14T14:10:00.000-07:002005-07-14T14:10:23.303-07:00THE WASHINGTON POST REVIEWS WOODWARD'S LATEST BOOK...which, as you have heard by now, is about Deep Throat and why and how Woodward kept the secret. Considering that he is an editor of the Post it will be no great surprise that the review is commendatory...which, of course, doesn't mean that its judgments are wrong.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121375368350004522005-07-14T14:09:00.000-07:002005-07-14T14:09:28.353-07:00THE UNIVERSAL MAP (that is, the map of the universe!)...will be completed by 2008 if all goes according to plan. Here's the relevant info as supplied by SpaceRef.com. And afterwards, do we start mapping the other universes that current cosmology posits?Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121375321179757182005-07-14T14:08:00.000-07:002005-07-14T14:08:41.180-07:00DID SIR CYRIL FAKE THE DATA? His research seemed to establish a very strong genetic component that determined level of intelligence. But after he was knighted and died, evidence of fraud was (or was it?) discovered. Here's an overview of the renewed debate.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121375300065304692005-07-14T14:07:00.000-07:002005-07-14T14:08:20.066-07:00HITLERIAN ALLOHISTORY...describes the alternative world that might have been IF Germany has won World War II. A new book that surveys the wide literature based on that counter-factual premise is reviewed here for the U.K. Telegraph.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121375251252529142005-07-14T14:06:00.000-07:002005-07-14T14:07:31.253-07:00ASK NOT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR HARVARD...ask, rather, what Harvard can do for you. The answer appears to be "plenty," according to a new book by a recent graduate...or, at least, according to this reviewer from Bethel University.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121375146868307272005-07-14T14:05:00.000-07:002005-07-14T14:05:46.870-07:00CAN THE ALUMNI CORRECT THE LEFT TILT OF THEIR ALMA MATER? The question was recently answered affirmatively at Dartmouth...and next on stage is Hamilton College where the project on "Gender, Society and Culture" has made the campus a major stop on the radical ranters tour. The report is from FIRE on whose advisory board the proprietor serves.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121375026976245552005-07-14T14:03:00.000-07:002005-07-14T14:03:46.976-07:00WHAT IS "THEORY" WORTH? The word is in quotes because that's the term that a gaggle of literary academics have used to designate the sort of post-mod, "nothing-really-means-what-you-thought-it-means" critical hustle that they have been performing for years. Now the super-anthology of "theory" has appeared and here's what one of its contributors has to say about the whole caper.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121374978704748522005-07-14T14:02:00.000-07:002005-07-14T14:02:58.706-07:00WHAT'S BEHIND CROP CIRCLES? Some playful perversity, considerable energy and some odd skills. All is explained here in fascinating detail provided at the invaluable "How Stuff Works" site.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121374860287110222005-07-14T14:00:00.000-07:002005-07-14T14:01:00.290-07:00THE MASTERS OF MEXICAN TRIO...are, and have long been, the Trio Los Panchos. These nine selections are representative of their subtle musicality...and the appended performances by Vikki Carr are, as well, surprisingly good.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121197289449739582005-07-12T12:45:00.000-07:002005-07-12T12:41:29.453-07:00THE EXTENT OF MUSLIM DISAFFECTION IN THE U.K. is the focus of this story from the London Times. The hitherto unreleased government study of the problem is linked and makes for chilling reading.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121197248756237172005-07-12T12:44:00.000-07:002005-07-12T12:40:48.756-07:00ON THE MUSLIM STREET...in Bethnal Green, one gets a sense of the inevitability of what happened in London on 7/7 and of why it will happen again. This chilling report was published in the Knight-Ridder papers over the weekend.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121197228541765522005-07-12T12:43:00.000-07:002005-07-12T12:40:28.543-07:00"A GOVERNING IDEOLOGY WHOSE TIME HAS COME"...is Krauthammer's description of "mature" neo-conservatism. This remarkable essay should, indeed, garner many remarks and responses IF serious historico-political discourse is still possible.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121197199907852022005-07-12T12:41:00.000-07:002005-07-12T12:39:59.910-07:00THE EMERGENCE OF THE "BEIJING CONSENSUS"...and its coming struggle to replace the "Washington Consensus" are the preoccupations of this rather brilliant--but not unconfused--article in the Financial Times. Bonus item: the identification of the Chinese William Kristol!!Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121197164257495842005-07-12T12:40:00.000-07:002005-07-12T12:39:24.260-07:00THE LIBERAL JUSTICES ATTACK ON PROPERTY RIGHTS...has astonished and dismayed many, among them John Fund of the Wall Street Journal who informs us here that a counter-reaction is spontaneously forming.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121197136376414922005-07-12T12:39:00.000-07:002005-07-12T12:38:56.376-07:00HOW DO DOGS SNIFF OUT BOMBS? Watching the police canines of London at work (after the fact!) revives that question. And here's how they are trained and controlled to do what they sometimes do successfully.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121197101709862512005-07-12T12:38:00.001-07:002005-07-12T12:38:21.710-07:00THE COMING OF THE POD(CAST)S...and what it all means for the future of radio. Since radio is our business, this article from the Philadelphia Inquirer was of inevitably high interest. And if you are a listener it will be for you, as well.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121197069560547462005-07-12T12:38:00.000-07:002005-07-12T12:37:49.563-07:00AN UNPUNISHED NUCLEAR SPY...who seemed to enjoy certain gender privileges, has quietly passed on, rich in years if not in wisdom, judgment or loyalty. Here she is as commemorated by the U.K. Economist.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121197044306124142005-07-12T12:33:00.000-07:002005-07-12T12:37:24.306-07:00WAS THIS THE WORLD'S GREATEST PHILOSOPHER? Well, at any rate, he was the world's greatest skeptic and Julian Baggini, writing with engaging enthusiasm in Scotland's Sunday Herald, makes a plausible case for the first proposition.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121196680968396992005-07-12T12:32:00.000-07:002005-07-12T12:31:20.970-07:00TAKING KINSEY ALL IN ALL...he was scientifically incompetent (possibly fraudulent) and morally tone-deaf. So says this essayist--prompted by the recent hagiographic biopic--in the current issue of City Journal.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121196649235498882005-07-12T12:31:00.000-07:002005-07-12T12:30:49.236-07:00A WEEKEND WITH BASHAR AND HIS "SMASHING" WIFE, ASMA: Everything you wanted to know about the most "glamorous couple" in old Damascus is not revealed in this New York Times article which, nevertheless, does provide some edification and some bitter laughs.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121196612257297092005-07-12T12:30:00.000-07:002005-07-12T12:30:12.260-07:00DE MORTIBUS NIL NISI BONUM...unless the negative stuff is amusing. That seems to be the applicable first principle in the obituary trade as does appear in this inevitably interesting account of the annual meeting of the International Association of Obituarists.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1121196582733891582005-07-12T12:29:00.000-07:002005-07-12T12:29:42.736-07:00BRUCH, RAVEL, BRAHMS and MOZART AT LUGANO. This live broadacst from the Argerich Festival features a wonderful performance of Ravel's Don Quichotte a Dulcinee by Paul Morand as well as the Brahm's Quartet in F Minor for Piano and Strings.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1120788242879906242005-07-07T19:06:00.000-07:002005-07-07T19:04:02.880-07:00SOME VOICES WE RESPECT AND VALUE...provide valuable commentary on the London terrorist bombings. Here's Mark Steyn.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1120788219206072202005-07-07T19:04:00.000-07:002005-07-07T19:03:39.206-07:00AND CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS...his contentiousness and toughness properly aroused when it is needed.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1120788198192299102005-07-07T19:03:00.000-07:002005-07-07T19:03:18.193-07:00FRANK GAFFNEY...has it just right.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1120788182983784692005-07-07T19:02:00.000-07:002005-07-07T19:03:02.986-07:00HOW TO FIND THE PERPETRATORS...is the question addressed in this AP report from London.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1120788018238415722005-07-07T19:01:00.000-07:002005-07-07T19:02:39.250-07:00AND SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT ISLAM IN ENGLAND...from a National Review regular.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1120787975888559942005-07-07T18:59:00.000-07:002005-07-07T18:59:35.890-07:00FROM LEICESTER CATHEDRAL...some beautiful English church music in resonance with today's mood of mourning and resolve..."Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death/ I shall fear no evil."Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1120592581696009862005-07-05T12:48:00.000-07:002005-07-05T12:43:01.700-07:00TERRORISM ACROSS THE OTHER BORDER: The same murderous outfits that worry us are present in Canada as well...and, according to this AP story from Toronto, the Canadian government is spending big (but devalued) bucks as they attempt to track and control their resident "evil doers."Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1120592560249982352005-07-05T12:46:00.000-07:002005-07-05T12:42:40.250-07:00AND HOW ABOUT THE "LONGEST UNGUARDED BORDER IN THE WORLD?" That's what they used to say about the U.S.-Canada divider--but, according to the AP's Canada bureau chief, what's coming across ain't just smoked salmon and/or maple syrup!!Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1120592534031379742005-07-05T12:45:00.000-07:002005-07-05T12:42:14.033-07:00TWO CHEERS FOR GITMO...are sounded here by a retired Army major who is just back from a visit to the place that Amensty International dubs (with encouragement from their benefactor, George Soros?) the "modern gulag."Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1120592490572184702005-07-05T12:44:00.000-07:002005-07-05T12:41:30.573-07:00LIBERTARIAN LAWYERS APPOINT THE NEW JUSTICES: At least, that was the assignment given them by Reason, the more-or-less official libertarian magazine. What stands out is how well all of these people enjoy the liberty to veer right or left in a way which obscures the libertarian ethos--if, indeed, there is one.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1120592458191239042005-07-05T12:43:00.000-07:002005-07-05T12:40:58.193-07:00VIVA FALLACI! Now the Italian judicial leftists are coming after her and would like to imprison her for vilifying the jihadists...all happening while this brave journalist is in the last stage of her life. Varadarajan of the Wall Street Journal reports on a recent interview with her.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1120592413020074902005-07-05T12:42:00.000-07:002005-07-05T12:40:13.023-07:00MAKING THE RUBBLE BOUNCE ON TEMPEL 1...was the idea and intention of the Deep Impact mission and it has gone off as well as--or better than--planned. Here's an informative account from the people at Nature magazine.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1120592376532629232005-07-05T12:41:00.000-07:002005-07-05T12:39:36.533-07:00AND IN EIGHT DAYS BACK INTO SPACE...if, if, if all the safety checks are positive and if NASA doesn't develop cold feet. Apparently a lot is riding on the next scheduled "manned mission." The details are here in a full account from the Los Angeles Times.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1120592348860360552005-07-05T12:40:00.000-07:002005-07-05T12:39:08.863-07:00AND SPEAKING OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE...scroll down to the second item of John Derbyshire's June Diary--from National Review--for a dose of very cold water. And then scroll back up again for his quick stiletto job on Jean Paul Sartre.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1120592308749059582005-07-05T12:39:00.000-07:002005-07-05T12:38:28.750-07:00THE MAN WHO (PROBABLY) SAVED NEW YORK...was, of course, Rudolph Giuliani who has now been properly biographized in a volume that seriously asks and answers the question: How did he do it? The review is from the Christian Science Monitor.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1120592285390324952005-07-05T12:38:00.000-07:002005-07-05T12:38:05.393-07:00DARWINISM AND NAZISM: There is--and it has long been obvious--a clear link from the former to the latter. That doesn't invalidate Darwinian theory (that, in fact, would be a gross commission of the "genetic fallacy") but it does reinforce the lesson that ideas have consequences. This conversation with the author of a recent book titled From Darwin to Hitler does make for compelling reading.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813109.post-1120592258222912222005-07-05T12:37:00.000-07:002005-07-05T12:37:38.223-07:00THE HARM THAT PSYCHOLOGISM HAS DONE...is vast and not totally incalculable. The question is examined in a new book which is summarized here by its authors. One of them, Christina Hoff Sommers, is a favorite guest on Extension 720 and can be heard here discussing an earlier work.Miltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14906332356741970209noreply@blogger.com