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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Reader bleg

Dear readers,

What were the best essay-form magazine articles you read in 2007? No, I totally don't know what this is for either... Ok, let me know!

Kthx,

Miss Self-Important

3 comments:

Withywindle said...

Generically, I find the book reviews of The New Republic often to be the most interesting essays I read--do those count in your book?

Happy Thanksgiving!

Miss Self-Important said...

Specific gems plz?

Withywindle said...

Oh, um, Neal Katyal, "Counsel, Legal and Illegal," part book review of Jack Goldsmith's The Terror Presidency, part essay, which I responded to at length on my blog really was quite good. There was also something summarizing theories of whether we (humans, mammals, insects, etc.) are genetically programmed to be altruistic or self-interested, and summarizing the history of the field since Darwin, I thought was quite interesting.