http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog world media review website Sun, 31 May 2009 14:33:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/24/blogs-and-journalism-need-each-other/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/24/blogs-and-journalism-need-each-other/#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2005 08:57:13 +0000 Milen Nedev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/?p=58 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/24/blogs-and-journalism-need-each-other/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/11/elizabeth-kostova-interview/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/11/elizabeth-kostova-interview/#comments Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:05:34 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/11/elizabeth-kostova-interview/ Elizabeth Kostova is the author of The Historian (June 2005), a chilling historical mystery that reaches from the present day into the medieval past of Vlad the Impaler, Wallachia's barbarous 15th century ruler whose gruesome deeds gave rise to the legend of Dracula. In The Historian, Kostova's characters hunt the immortal Prince Vlad across twentieth century Europe, from ancient village to dank crypt in a quest to destroy the vampire.]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/11/elizabeth-kostova-interview/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/02/methodism-empire-of-the-spirit/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/02/methodism-empire-of-the-spirit/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:47:37 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/02/methodism-empire-of-the-spirit/ The turn of the millennium may not have brought on the Apocalypse, or a Y2K global computer crash. But the first five years of the 21st century have witnessed what, to many of us, seems equivalent: an apparently sudden preponderance of evangelical Christianity in startling places.]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/02/methodism-empire-of-the-spirit/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/the-inequality-taboo/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/the-inequality-taboo/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:43:25 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/the-inequality-taboo/ IQ differences between men and women and between blacks and whites]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/the-inequality-taboo/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/attali-karl-marx-was-really-a-free-marketeer/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/attali-karl-marx-was-really-a-free-marketeer/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2005 07:08:54 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/attali-karl-marx-was-really-a-free-marketeer/ Karl Marx was a closet capitalist. So writes French author Jacques Attali in ``Karl Marx ou l'esprit du monde'' ]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/attali-karl-marx-was-really-a-free-marketeer/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/at-50-nabokovs-lolita-still-seduced-and-disturbs/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/at-50-nabokovs-lolita-still-seduced-and-disturbs/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2005 06:48:48 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/at-50-nabokovs-lolita-still-seduced-and-disturbs/ Stated somewhat differently, the most brilliant American novel of the 20th century, now a round and ripe 50 years old, tells us that the artist cannot live in the world as he lives in the world of words--and that this is a lesson worthy of expressing in the world of words.]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/at-50-nabokovs-lolita-still-seduced-and-disturbs/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/the-origin-of-modernity/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/the-origin-of-modernity/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:24:10 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/the-origin-of-modernity/ In the last several decades, modernity--the period initiated by the Enlightenment--has come under increasing criticism]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/the-origin-of-modernity/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/23/a-bright-future-for-newspapers/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/23/a-bright-future-for-newspapers/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:20:13 +0000 Milen Nedev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/?p=37 Stop hanging the crepe. A contrarian argues that despite those discouraging circulation numbers, the old behemoths are well positioned to thrive in the new-media world.]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/23/a-bright-future-for-newspapers/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/19/the-irascible-prophet-naipaul-at-home/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/19/the-irascible-prophet-naipaul-at-home/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:20:42 +0000 Milen Nedev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/19/the-irascible-prophet-v-s-naipaul-at-home/ A prophet of our world-historical moment, in his more than 25 works of fiction and nonfiction, Naipaul has examined the clash between belief and unbelief, the unraveling of the British Empire, the migrations of peoples.]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/19/the-irascible-prophet-naipaul-at-home/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/18/piety-as-a-form-of-self-knowledge/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/18/piety-as-a-form-of-self-knowledge/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:24:29 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/18/piety-as-a-form-of-self-knowledge/ What is it to possess a religious sensibility? What is it to be contrasted with? And why, despite professions of religiosity, is it so rare? ]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/18/piety-as-a-form-of-self-knowledge/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/15/the-ethical-brain/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/15/the-ethical-brain/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:58:03 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/15/the-ethical-brain/ Envision this scene: Socrates sits in prison, calmly awaiting execution, passing the time in philosophical discussions with students and friends, taking the occasion to inquire into the fundamentals of ethics: Where do moral laws come from? What is the root of moral motivation? What is the relation between power and morality? What is good? What is just?]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/15/the-ethical-brain/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/15/biology-doesn%e2%80%99t-explain-why-societies-collapse/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/15/biology-doesn%e2%80%99t-explain-why-societies-collapse/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:01:02 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/15/biology-doesn%e2%80%99t-explain-why-societies-collapse/ Jared Diamond’s new book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, is neither “superb” (The New Statesman), “incisive” (The Washington Post), “magisterial” (BusinessWeek), nor “insightful and very important” (Boston Herald). It is, instead, a telling example of how a smart man can be terribly misled by a fixation on one big idea. In this case, Diamond, a biologist, is trying to apply biology’s master narrative to human societies.]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/15/biology-doesn%e2%80%99t-explain-why-societies-collapse/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/12/s%c3%b8ren-kierkegaard-a-biography/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/12/s%c3%b8ren-kierkegaard-a-biography/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:27:53 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/12/s%c3%b8ren-kierkegaard-a-biography/ When Søren Kierkegaard lay dying in Copenhagen 150 years ago, it would have been hard to predict the influence his work would later have. ]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/12/s%c3%b8ren-kierkegaard-a-biography/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/07/31/the-world-is-flat-an-interview-with-thomas-l-friedman/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/07/31/the-world-is-flat-an-interview-with-thomas-l-friedman/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:12:35 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/07/31/the-world-is-flat-an-interview-with-thomas-l-friedman/ Everybody knows that Tom Friedman is probably the most famous columnist in America today. We know that his accomplishments are legion, his travels legendary. We know that his earlier books have been on the bestseller lists for months at a time and that he thrice received the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting.]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/07/31/the-world-is-flat-an-interview-with-thomas-l-friedman/feed/ 0