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Entries from June 2009

Diamond, third chimpanzee, art evolution

June 13th, 2009 · No Comments

From The Unrepentant Marxist, Evolutionary Psychology and Art

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NYRB on Darwin

June 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Volume 56, Number 9 · May 28, 2009 Why Darwin? By Richard C. Lewontin Darwin’s Origin of Species: A Biography by Janet Browne Grove, 174 pp., $13.00 (paper) The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, annotated by James T. Costa Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, [...]

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Einstein on socialism

June 6th, 2009 · No Comments

http://monthlyreview.org/598einstein.php Monthly Review May 2009 Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein This essay was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that [...]

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Deindustrialization

June 1st, 2009 · No Comments

The ‘New GM’: Layoffs, Factory Closings, Offshoring Nothing about the old way of doing business made sense, and it made a wreck of GM. After decades of closing factories, laying off workers and shifting production overseas, the company now finds itself with $172.8 billion in debt. It would make sense to change course, radically. But [...]

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