- Assimilation, Psychological fdns of racism, jewish problem Hirschfeld, NYer, My youth as a news anchor, - Psych challenge of fear, workout in worse conditions to acclimate your brain chemicals/psych - Collection of philosophical papers - on career, procrastination, daily life, friends, by philosophers for young adults

- Lee Bollinger, JD, as a University president JDs, not PhDs, as presidents of universities. It is a new thing, a nouvelle vague? We'll find out! Research the issues. Because if it is, then the status of the University's newer schools has changed.

- Attacking the Centrist Pragmatist and Defending the Left Gray Davis showed the national party how to play ball. Charting a leftward course has invited centrist republican assaults. How to resist? In 2000, Al Gore moved back to the center himself. He bellied up at the middle of every issue. Gray Davis did something different: he tagged the centrist maneuvering as political wishy-washiness, attacked the lack of conviction.

- Psychology of Defeat e.g., NCAA losers, Democrats post-Gore (or any election candidate), game show contestants, college applications, marriage proposals... Defeat after an all-out cause can have significant effects. Even if you got far. Ever wonder why the Oscar losers are so bummed? Well cuz they feel the loss too…. Find some research with surprising results and voila you’ve got an article.

- The Setting Squal at Microsoft [April 2002] Look at MS today. Market share. Revenues. Diverse businesses. Drawing its top talent back in. More firmly in command than ever before, on a bigger cash hoard and in a stronger position. Their candidate won the election, they have a tech-candidate as Senator. They have passed the disruptive juncture. [Business 2.0 cover story on May 20 - Beating Bill, chronicles MS vs. AOL, Sony, Palm and less successful vs. Quicken, Real, Liberate.]

- How the Book has changed Art History. Art history departments are now rooms with lots of expensive books. They used to travelers. How the book has changed art. The study of art. Art itself.

- Thinking in Every Direction The world of windows encourages multitasking thought. Life before was not so simple. But now everything is equidistant from your mind. Every fact is one google search away. No walking over to a different room in the library. Hit alt-tab to flip between different ideas constantly. The shortish history of paper belies Gladwell’s observations about how we use it in our thinking. Paper’s only been around a while, just a bit longer than eye glasses. Give computers a chance. Indeed, give Windows a chance. For if there is a way that our vague, overmatched, and wandering minds lean on paper to get the job done, we have not much thought how severely Apple’s “desktop” figures into this mix. There are many ways it could go. For start, take the way it is going. The computer so far trades in documents. Work is about making, exchanging, reading and manipulating documents. There are all kinds: familiar written word on paper, of course. But also spreadsheets, presentations, image and sound files, web pages, Adobe Acrobat pdf files are some. There are movies, songs, and other things.

- NYU Seminar Philosophers since they moved to NY. Their Prada sneaker/shoes with the red stripe. Jerry Fodor the hotheaded leader of the show. The tab collars and stylish clothes. Like gay guys. British accents. Fodor wore a purple shirt, which his belly filled like a gale a sail.

- New Sense Party Fashions change. (Remember “The Financial Page”?) And they change on Wall St. too. Stock market and art market, they rise hand in hand. It was a glamorous affair through the 90s, as post-money valuations snapped after post-pop impertinences. But industrial isomorphisms end not there. Both high finance and haute culture rely mightily on the warm bodies of Ivy Leaguers to staff their proletarian classes each year, and from Columbia’s handy trough they do drink. The belle of the ball was an artist who’d come on the scene in a year where rebel righting in Kinshasa was the story of the summer. The class of 1998, the bull market…lots to art. When the guillotine drops, the suits had more to lose than the hipsters. The intermingling of Wall Street types into the boomtown of Bushwick (in the shadow of the Boar’s Head factory on Garrett Street). But in a departure recalling New York’s last slow daze, the Rising Sun loomed large.

- The Next Auteur of the Video Game Market Comparing video games to the early days of film. The early creators. Cinema studios, star system. The amateur period then the commercialized period. The effects of growth, the reach. The size of the market and where the value is (delivery mechanisms). Opening new channels as a way of making more revenues.

- The return to Truth in art. See the News blog (Delbanco's article-inspired).

- SF as Detroit, one biz town, Sim City as the opening tease - Record DVDs at home - the first great online-only ad campaign