Sunday, March 6, 2011

Sunday morning roundup

Karim Sadjadpour on many amateur analysts are misreading the Middle East.

Egyptian women insist on building on their recent gains. Also, what the Post's photographer went through to cover the revolution.

As for Afghan women, well... baby steps.

David Remnick on future of Haaretz.

Psychiatrists, increasingly, are medicators, not therapists.

George Will on Mike Huckabee and the Mau Maus.

How to fight hate speech without censorship.

In addition to the usual ideological and trade-association divides, San Francisco's battle over the future of shark fin soup exposes a generational shift. Which is sort-of an ideological divide in and of itself: younger generations are more conscious about the effects of their food choices on eco-systems, and more willing to adjust those food choices accordingly. Older generations are more willing to dismiss them as hippies.

And not too far north of there, a young farmer's grandfather tells him that his generation has to fix what Earl Butz messed up.

What a fascinating life.

A new book about a woman who loved food and one on your brain.

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