October 17th, 2014
I’ve got two pieces in the new Standard. The first is a review of Mitch Pearlstein’s excellent new book, Broken Bonds. If you’re a layman interested in the sociology of family fragmentation, but don’t want to get into the data too heavily, this is the book for you. Pearlstein has interviewed 40 very smart people–like Kay Hymowitz, Heather Mac Donald, and Isabel Sawhill–and turned the transcripts of those conversations into a coherent and vibrant book. As I say in the review “the overall effect being that the reader feels as though he’s sitting in a coffee shop eavesdropping on a particularly stimulating and elevated discussion.”
The other piece is the Buzzfeedingly-titled “Six Reasons to Panic.” It’s about Ebola.
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Oh, sir, you do not disappoint in re Ebola. From demography to epidemiology, what heights shall you not scale? Surely Ta-Nehisi Coates reads you and, shaking his head sadly, says “Dayum.”
Galley Friend A October 20, 2014 at 10:48 pm
https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/peuN3_vHCec?start=570&end=573&version=3&autoplay=1
There’s never been a better time to live in the woods.