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On August 4th 2009 four women were killed in a shooting at a fitness center near Pittsburgh. More tragedy becomes old news. Please see The Bell Tolls  (PDF), an essay I wrote after the murder of storyteller Joe Healy in 2000 near Pittsburgh.

I have a certain soft spot for Barry Goldwater (conservative presidential candidate in 1964). Here's a review of what looks like a pretty good critique of conservatism throughout U.S. history by Peter Berkowitz in the Hoover Policy Review 

The inmates and the asylum I: The diagnostic madness of DSM-V by Christopher Lane in Slate

The inmates and the asylum II: Management Consultants Run Amuck by Philip D. Broughton in the Wall Street Journal

The Capitalist Manifesto: Greed Is Good (to a Point), by Fareed Zakaria in Newsweek

The Politics of the Hidden Agenda by Frank Furedi in Spiked

A review of Mathew Crawford's book, Shop Class as Soul Craft in the Chronicle of Higher Education

From the department of unpopular truth:  How setting rigid corporate and individual goals can trip you up by Drake Bennett in the Boston Globe

Explaining Darwin and Natural Selection the Right Way in Scientific American

Leonardo da Vinci's Attention-Deficit Disorder in The Chronicle of Higher Education  (Just think of what this guy could have done on a dose of Ritalin^TM!)