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Date: 2010
"Perhaps if the political left is willing to return to class politics (something the right-wing advocates of trickle-down have never abandoned) it might at least find a way to drive this zombie idea out of the assumed background of political debate."
preview | full record— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)
Date: 2010
"With the national exemplars of comprehensive privatization in disarray, and its advocates in full retreat, it seems unlikely that this zombie idea will return from the grave any time soon."
preview | full record— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)
Date: 2010
"The zombie ideas discussed in this book are similarly resilient."
preview | full record— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)
Date: 2010
"The Global Financial Crisis gives the economics profession the chance to bury the zombie ideas that led the world into crisis, and to produce a more realistic, humble, and above all socially useful body of thought."
preview | full record— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)
Date: June 1, 2010
"Anyone who's closely read Mr. Hitchens's work -- including his best-selling manifesto 'God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything' (2007) -- or seen him do battle on cable news programs, knows that he has a mind like a Swiss Army knife, ready to carve up or unbolt an opponent's arguments ...
preview | full record— Garner, Dwight (b. 1965)
Date: June 1, 2010
"His mental Swiss Army knife also contains, happily, a corkscrew."
preview | full record— Garner, Dwight (b. 1965)
Date: March 29, 2010
"Drip, drip, drip — that’s what insomniac thoughts feel like, a leaky faucet behind the eyes."
preview | full record— Marino, Gordon
Date: February 25, 2010
"There is no longer much debate over whether evolution sculptured the fleshy machine inside our head."
preview | full record— Lehrer, Jonah
Date: February 25, 2010
"Their evolutionary perspective, however — they see the mind as a fine-tuned machine that is not prone to pointless programming bugs — led them to wonder if rumination had a purpose."
preview | full record— Lehrer, Jonah
Date: February 25, 2010
"That’s because rumination is largely rooted in working memory, a kind of mental scratchpad that allows us to 'work' with all the information stuck in consciousness."
preview | full record— Lehrer, Jonah
