Switch
The NYT reviews The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu. You can read an excerpt here.
Green Fail
NYT: Number of Green Jobs Fails to Live Up to Promises. Flanked by a cadre of local political leaders, Mayor Chuck Reed of San Jose used a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a solar power company last week to talk up the [...]
Self-Exam
The Self-Exam That Higher Education Would Rather Not Conduct by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus. We’d like to think we’re not naïve. Although our book, Higher Education?, mentioned much that needed fixing, we didn’t expect universal agreement, let alone concerted [...]