January 26, 2009

Your Monday morning reading

By: AF Editors

Slate finally publishes something worthwhile in Ron Rosenbaum’s excoriation of my least favorite pop musician ever.

The always-interesting John Derbyshire has a thoughtful review of a new book on art and human evolution by Denis Dutton, editor of the fine Arts & Letters Daily website.

The good people at spiked have an excellent issue on the war in Gaza, in which about five or six articles actually manage to say something original and worthwhile on an otherwise bleak and depressing subject.