Tuesday, May 14, 2013

From Winterfell to King’s Landing: The Cartography of Game of Thrones. By Frank Jacobs.

From Winterfell to King’s Landing. By Frank Jacobs. Foreign Policy, May 10, 2013.

How the cartography of Game of Thrones explains the world.

More on Game of Thrones here. More GOT maps here.








Multiculti U. By Heather Mac Donald.

Multiculti U. By Heather Mac Donald. City Journal, Spring 2013.

Is the UC system starving the humanities? By Peter Schrag. Sacramento Bee, July 22, 2012.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Empty Chair. By Michael J. Totten.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Empty Chair. By Michael J. Totten. World Affairs, May 12, 2013.

Decline of the Empire. By Gore Vidal.

Decline of the Empire. By Gore Vidal. The Nation, May 13, 2013.

The Demise of the Anti-Israel Card. By Barry Rubin.

The Israel Card Has Been Overplayed. By Barry Rubin. Real Clear World, May 13, 2013. Also at GLORIA Center, Jerusalem Post, PJ Media.

Standoff at the Western Wall Over Praying By Women. By Jodi Rudoren.

Members of a group called Women of the Wall read from the Torah near the Western Wall in Jerusalem in December. Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times.

Standoff at Western Wall Over Praying By Women. By Jodi Rudoren. New York Times, May 10, 2013.

Anat Hoffman: Fighting on holy ground. By Jeremy Sharon. Jerusalem Post, May 14, 2013.

Pray Like I Do. By Steve Hochstadt. History News Network, May 15, 2013.

At a Sacred Site, a Fight Over Women and Prayer. By Jodi Rudoren. New York Times, December 22, 2012.

Israel to Review Curbs on Women’s Prayer at Western Wall. By Jodi Rudoren. New York Times, December 22, 2012.

Angelina Jolie Heads Off Breast Cancer With a Preventive Double Mastectomy

Actress Angelina Jolie arrives for the G8 Foreign Ministers Meeting in central London April 11, 2013. REUTERS/Toby Melville.


My Medical Choice. By Angelina Jolie. New York Times, May 14, 2013.

Jolie’s Disclosure Highlights a Breast Cancer Dilemma. By Denise Grady. New York Times, May 14, 2013.

Angelina Jolie: I Has a Double Mastectomy. TMZ, May 14, 2013.

Angelina Jolie’s brave message. By Arthur Caplan. CNN, May 14, 2013.

Angelina Jolie Makes a Courageous Choice. By Rush Limbaugh. RushLimbaugh.com, May 14, 2013.

Angelina Jolie’s mother Marcheline Bertrand taught daughter about living and survival. By Randee Dawn. NBC News, May 14, 2013.

Angelina Jolie: Jokes About Her Double Mastectomy Get Ugly On Twitter. By Christina Huffington. The Huffington Post, May 15, 2013.

Public Response to Angelina Jolie’s Mastectomy Proves We Still See Women As Body Parts. By Carrie Murphy. BlissTree, May 14, 2013.

The Choice. By Mark E. Robson, M.D. The Huffington Post, May 17, 2013.

Angelina Jolie’s Aunt Dies Of Breast Cancer Days After Op-ed. AP. The Huffington Post, May 26, 2013.

Breast Cancer Survivors: Stop Sexualizing Our Disease. By John Johnson. Newser, October 30, 2012.

Cancer Free at 33, but Weighing a Mastectomy. By Amy Harmon. New York Times, September 16, 2007.

It’s Okay to Look at Our Chests. Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. American Cancer Society.

Pink Lotus Breast Center website.

Michael Savage on Angelina Jolie Double Mastectomy. Audio. imitator777, May 16, 2013. YouTube.




Angelina Jolie and Recovering After Breast Surgery. Video. Wall Street Journal, May 14, 2013.




Angelina Jolie’s Bold Choice for a Double Mastectomy. Video. The Young Turks, May 15, 2013. YouTube.




Double Mastectomy: Angelina Jolie’s Bold “Preventive” Medical Choice. Video. politicalarticles, May 15, 2013. YouTube. Also at The Cycle. MSNBC, May 14, 2013.




From Mastectomy to Mess-Tectomy. Video. HuffPost Live, May 24, 2013. AOL On.

Is College Moving Online? By Nathan Heller.

Laptop U. By Nathan Heller. The New Yorker, May 20, 2013.

Has the future of college moved online?

An Avalanche Is Coming: Higher Education and the Revolution Ahead. By Sir Michael Barber, Katelyn Donnelly, and Saad Rizvi. Institute for Public Policy Research, March 2013. PDF.

If You Read One Thing About MOOCs This Week. . . By Walter Russell Mead. Via Meadia, May 16, 2013.

More on MOOCs here and here.

Male Suicide: Where’s the Outcry? By Walter Russell Mead.

Male Suicide: Where’s the Outcry? By Walter Russell Mead. Via Meadia, May 13, 2013.

Men in Decline Means More Single Moms. By Walter Russell Mead. Via Meadia, March 20, 2013.

Suicide Rate Rises Sharply in U.S. By Tara Parker-Pope. New York Times, May 2, 2013.

What’s Driving the Rise in Suicide Among Middle-Aged Men? By W. Bradford Wilcox. The Atlantic, May 13, 2013.

Summary of Emile Durkheim’s Suicide (1897). Excerpt from Robert Alun Jones. Emile Durkheim: An Introduction to Four Major Works. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 1986. Pp. 82-114.

Suicide: A Study in Sociology. By Emile Durkheim. Edited by John A. Spaulding and George Simpson. Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1951.

The Lethality of Loneliness. By Judith Shulevitz.

The Lethality of Loneliness. By Judith Shulevitz. The New Republic, May 13, 2013. Also find it here.

Shaking Off Loneliness. By Jane E. Brody. New York Times, May 13, 2013.

Social Relationships and Health. By James S. House, Karl R. Landis, and Debra Umberson. Science, Vol. 241, No. 4865 (July 29, 1988). Also find it here.