Arts & Letters Daily (29 Apr 2011):
The data ninjas of Silicon Valley are obsessed with eyeballs. "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads"... more
How did a first-generation Turkish grad student end up driving around San Francisco with Isaac Babel's 90-year-old widow riding shotgun?... more
Sure, flogging is barbaric, retrograde, and ugly, but if you were sentenced to five years in prison and had the option of receiving lashes instead, which would you choose?... more