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TV and the internet Never the twain? ☞영화, 미드, 영자신문 온라인스터디 모집; 클릭하세요 *never the twain shall meet ; used to say that two things are so different that they cannot exist together A FEW years ago, some media executives feared (and many bloggers gloated) that people were abandoning television for the internet. That hasn’t happened. The most rigorous studies show that television-watching has not declin..

Lawrence of Arabia Prince of his disorder T.E. Lawrence was complicated, contradictory and controversial Apr 28th 2011 | from the print edition Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia. By Michael Korda. Harper; 762 pages; $36. JR Books; £25. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk ☞영화, 미드, 영자신문 온라인스터디 모집; 클릭하세요 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA is a modern myth. The subject of more than 100 books, several of..

Theories of history The good, the great and the gelded Mar 31st 2011 | from the print edition *geld: 거세하다, 고환을 없애다, /[영국사] (지주가 군주에게 바치던) 세금 The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. By Francis Fukuyama. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 608 pages; $35. To be published in Britain by Profile in May; £25. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk ☞영화, 미드, 영자신문 온라인스터디 모집; 클릭하세요..

Conflict on the Korean peninsula Ignore us at your peril A deadly attack on South Korean territory reminds the world how dangerous the Kims’ regime can be Nov 25th 2010 | SEOUL and TOKYO | from PRINT EDITION IF THE world sniggered to see Kim Jong Un, with his fat-faced boyishness, thrust forward as the dictator-to-be of North Korea, it is not laughing now. A 65-minute-long artillery barrage on N..

The global economy How to stop a currency war Keep calm, don’t expect quick fixes and above all don’t unleash a trade fight with China Oct 14th 2010 IN RECENT weeks the world economy has been on a war footing, at least rhetorically. Ever since Brazil’s finance minister, Guido Mantega, declared on September 27th that an “international currency war” had broken out, the global economic debate has b..

Education in America Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s an important attempt to get the American public behind education reform Sep 30th 2010 *"It's A Bird... It's A Plane... It's Superman" is a musical with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams, with a book by David Newman and Robert Benton. It is based on the comic book character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster a..

Facebook and freedom Sep 29th 2010, 19:41 by M.S. MY COLLEAGUE disagrees with Malcolm Gladwell's argument that electronic social networking doesn't do much to empower oppositional political movements. "On social networks," my colleague writes, 내 동료는 전자 소셜 네트워킹이 정치적 저항운동에 그다지 큰 역할을 하지 않는다는 말콤 글래드웰의 주장에 동의하지 않는다. “소셜 네트워크에 관해서”, 네 동료는 이렇게 쓴다. anyone and everyone becomes a producer of content, and ..

Understanding the universe Order of creation Even Stephen Hawking doesn't quite manage to explain why we are here Sep 9th 2010 Here comes the sun IN 1988, Stephen Hawking, a British cosmologist, ended his best-selling book, “A Brief History of Time”, on a cliff hanger. If we find a physical theory that explains everything, he wrote—suggesting that this happy day was not too far off—“then we woul..

Lexington Where has all the greatness gone? Some Americans want to feel exceptional again. Better not to talk about it Jul 15th 2010 THIS column wishes respectfully to propose a temporary ban on references in political debate to both American greatness and American exceptionalism. This is not because Lexington denies that America is great and exceptional. It is. The case for the ban is that both..