What We’re Reading

• ‘Remember Trotsky!’ by Neil Barnett, The Spectator, Nov. 25, 2006. Barnett writes about his conversations with the poisoned former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, and his criticisms of Russia that allegedly led to his death.

Travis Daub

• Going for a blast into the real past, by Tom Paulson, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. University of Washington physicists John Cramer and Warren Nagourney specialize in quantum physics—the kind of physics even Einstein found daunting. If their new process works, they’ll receive a signal before they send it, effectively sending it back into the past. 

• Tons of mercury could hit market, U.S. agency considers selling toxic stockpile, by Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune.

• Justices to hear key greenhouse gas case, by H. Josef Hebert, Associated Press. 

Mike Boyer

• Philip Rosedale: Building a world entire, by Tom Colligan, Esquire, December 2006.

• No Country for Old Men, a novel by Cormac McCarthy

Christine Chen

• One Spoonful at a Time, by Harriet Brown, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 2006. A truly heartbreaking story of a mother trying to help her teenage daughter recover from anorexia. 

• The Most 100 Influential Americans of All Time, The Atlantic, December 2006. John D. Rockefeller, #11. Albert Einstein, #34. Seriously?! 

Jai Singh

• Data suggest oil industry squeezes supply, by Jeff Donn, Associated Press.

• The Security Trap by G. John Ikenberry, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Fall 2006.
  

Mark Levenstein

• Two great pieces in the Washington Post: Energy Firms Come to Terms With Climate Change and On the Move to Outrun Climate Change. 

• How to Get a Nuclear Bomb by William Langewiesche, The Atlantic, December 2006.