Roundup: Old Debates Begun Anew
Mark Lilla debates whether conservative ideas are properly studied on college campuses, and adds that, at Columbia “not a single prominent conservative is to be found.” (Chronicle of Higher Education)
HHS Secretary says swine flu vaccines could start early next month, but will that really stop the hysteria? (AP)
The new (and even-more-Twitter-like) Facebook Lite debuts – another new version of Facebook for people to create Facebook groups hating it. (CNET)
Pulitzer-winner Tracy Kidder’s new book is about a “a young medical student who fled the genocidal civil war in Burundi in 1994″ and ended up at Columbia and later medical school and American citizenship. Jeez, we thought it was hard getting out of bed this morning. (Buffalo News)
Finally, our thoughts are with grad student Jonathan Widawsky, as New Haven police continue to look for his missing fiancee. (Daily News)
Tags: alums who make us proud, conservatives, mark lilla, SWINE FLU!
13 September 2009 @ 8:17 AM · 2 comments
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I recommend the Mark Lilla article…really sharp,I thought, plus I had no idea he is an ex-conservative!
is more like facebook circa ’03 than anything. no apps, birthdays again prominently displayed, photos slow to load… paradise.