Last week, a group of five women law students from Columbia University took seats on a small makeshift stage, dressed in identical skimpy black hot pants and white tank tops, mimicking law students in classes taught by their 34-year-old professor, Tim Wu. A voice-over pretended to broadcast the contents of the female students’ wandering minds. Read More
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. William Morrow, 242 pages. $25.95.
Freakonomics is the latest in a recent genre of nonfiction book that explains in non-stick prose how the world really works, popularizing a science or scientific insight while forever hitting the reader Read More
Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline , by Richard A. Posner. Harvard University Press, 408 pages, $29.95.
The goofy centerpiece of this book is a
series of 10 tables ranking and sorting the top 500 or so public intellectuals by mentions in the media, on the Web and in scholarly work. Richard A. Posner, a Read More
An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton , by Richard A. Posner. Harvard University Press, 276 pages, $24.95.
While the Clintons house-hunt in Westchester County, plan Hillary’s run for the Senate and spin novel psychoanalytic and religious explanations for the President’s behavior, the rest of us have been left to Read More
