Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight About Animals
By Hal Herzog
The average meat-eating, leather-wearing reader might feel apprehensive picking up a book on anthrozoology, the study of human-animal interaction. Most literature on this modern interdisciplinary field seems to veer towards animal rights propaganda, inevitably or indirectly preaching about the ethics of owning a pet, going vegetarian or donning exotic skins.
Sebastian Mallaby is director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and a Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Mallaby joined CFR from The Washington Post, where he served as a columnist and editorial board member. He is author of the bestselling The World’s Banker and most recently of More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite. Below, he tells us more about himself.
by Sarah Barber
Of a pair of owl-shaped stoneware cups
at least one will meet a bad end in a basement—
Though the title of his history of hedge funds — More Money Than God — might sound a bit extreme, Sebastian Mallaby had his reasons.
“J.P. Morgan was known as Jupiter because of his godlike power over Wall Street,”Mallaby explained to the crowd at MOCA Grand Avenue. The titan had at his death in 1913 $1.4 billion in today’s dollars. “A lot of characters around hedge funds make $1.4 billion in a single year.”
The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
by Richard Rhodes
Like the training scenes in “The Karate Kid”, it’s hard to understand why we are reading Twilight of the Bomb‘s historical minutiae while in the midst of it. If Richard Rhodes’ history is a review of nuclear challenges since the Cold War
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