Jonah Lehrer's critique of pundits and their predictions.
“We need to cultivate the art of self-overhearing, to learn how to eavesdrop on the mental conversations we have with ourselves.”--Philip Tetlock
Read the article on wired.com
Press release:
New York, NY, October 11, 2010 — Book lovers everywhere now have an exciting new resource for book reviews they can trust. The New York Journal of Books (www.nyjournalofbooks.com
“We intend to fill the gap that has resulted from the contraction, and in some cases the total elimination, of esteemed print book reviews,” says founder Ted Sturtz. “Unrestrained by page counts and printing costs, we are dedicated to delivering the most comprehensive detailed book reviews in North America written by credentialed reviewers whose knowledge, insight, voice, and measure of the written word permeate our book profiles.”
Thanks to the broad expertise of the NYJB’s team of reviewers, the free site features an eclectic selection of titles sourced from independent publishers as well as imprints of the largest publishers. To help readers make their book selections, reviews are enhanced with rich media, such as video, audio and book browsing.
Visitors to NYJB will also enjoy the immediacy possible only online. Going forward, reviews will be posted at midnight on the date a book is released. When users discover books they want to read, they’ll find that the ability to purchase is conveniently a click away for a truly one-stop experience.
NYJB Publisher, Lisa Rojany Buccieri, author of more than 100 books for children and young adults, lead author of Writing Children's Books for Dummies, and owner of Editorial Services of Los Angeles, noted “fierce attention to the editing and newreviewer selection process will ensure that, as the volume of reviews grows, the quality of reviews will be maintained.” She added, “At the same time, we also take great joy in the panorama of reviewers on our panel and their truly unique voices. They don’t simply judge books. They engage, inform, and even entertain our readers.”
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Number of Connections Less Important Than Proximity to Core.
This finding is equally compelling to epidemiologists and PR/social marketers.
Number of Connections Less Important Than Proximity to Core.
This finding is equally compelling to epidemiologists and PR/social marketers.
The New Leader, a liberal anti-communist little magazine that was the product of New York's Jewish intellectual milieu is folding after 86 years, Jewish Ideas Daily reports.
The following is an excerpt from Yehuda Mirsky's Jewish Ideas Daily article:
After eighty-six years, eighty-two in print and the last few in cyberspace, the New Leader, a quintessential American "little magazine," is folding.
Under Sol Levitas's editorship, during years when the much-higher-circulation Nation and New Republic often ran acrobatic apologies for Stalin, the New Leader became a bi-weekly platform for what was then known as liberal anti-Communism.
Officially non-sectarian, the New Leader was unmistakably a creature of New York's Jewish intellectual milieu, not only in articles discussing Israel, Jewish affairs, or the Holocaust but in its mix of intellectual seriousness, skepticism, moral purpose, and endless reckonings with the meanings and consequences of the failed Revolution on which so many Jews had staked so much.
When I was growing up my parents subscribed to The New Leader.
The New Leader, a liberal anti-communist little magazine that was the product of New York's Jewish intellectual milieu is folding after 86 years, Jewish Ideas Daily reports.
When I was growing up my parents subscribed to The New Leader.
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