What do fact-checkers and anesthesiologists have in common? It’s not a joke. David Zweig explains.
In a rather long (11,000 words!) and rambling review of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs, Evgeny Morozov links Apple’s design ethos with the Bauhaus, ponders the late Jobs’s many paradoxes—I’d prefer to call them glaring inconsistencies—and, without much effort, shoots down the rather ridiculous notion of Jobs as some sort of Zen philosopher.
And over at the New York Review of Books blog, Tim parks wonders when writing became a career choice—with the promise of “a lifetime of literary festivals, shortlists and prizes, readings, seminars, honorary degrees, lectures, and, of course, writing….”
