Summer of 2010

24 August 2010: When Good People Do Evil by Philip Zimbardo
17 August 2010: Telling Tails by Tim O’Brien
10 August 2010: Science Turns Authoritarian by Kenneth Green
03 August 2010: Letting Go by Atul Gawande
27 July 2010: The End of Men by Hana Rosin
20 July 2010: Win or Lose by Anthony Gottlieb
13 July 2010: How Facts Backfire by Joe Keohane
07 July 2010: Why Not Nuclear Disarmament? by Christopher Ford
30 June 2010: Are Fathers Necessary? by Pamela Paul
23 June 2010: Are Liberals Smarter than Conservatives? by Jason Richwine
16 June 2010: Does the Internet Make You Dumber? by Nicholas Carr and Mind Over Mass Media by Steven Pinker
09 June 2010: Dead Dogs (only print the first six pages)by Colin Dayan

2009-10 School Year

02 June 2010: Sympathy Deferred by Theodore Dalrympe
26 May 2010: Watching TV Makes You Smarter by Steven Johnson
19 May 2010: Delimiting Death by Nature Editors and Presumptuous Consent by Wesley Smith
12 May 2010: Video Games Can Never Be Art by Roger Ebert and Why Video Games are Works of Art by Kyle Chayka
05 May 2010: The Data Driven Life by Gary Wolf
28 April 2010: National Honor Society Induction (no meeting)
21 April 2010: Into Teen Air by Bruce Barcott
14 April 2010: Million Dollar Murray by Malcolm Gladwell
07 April 2010: Can’t Wait ‘Til Tax Day by Ethan Porter
SPRING BREAK
24 March 2010: Resistance Resisters by Derrick Jensen
17 March 2010: To Stop Crime, Share Your Genes by Michael Seringhaus
10 March 2010: What Happened to Women? by Katha Pollitt
March 3 2010: Tillikum: The Slave Whale Who Chose to Fight Back by Alexander Cockburn
24 February 2010: Mothers in Combat Boots by Mary Eberstadt
17 February 2010: The Serfdom of Crowds by Jaron Lanier
10 February 2010: Why Are Liberals So Condescending? by Gerard Alexander and Condescending Liberals by Michael Kinsley
03 February 2010: Whole Foods Healthcare
27 January 2010: Why Your DNA Isn’t Your Destiny by John Cloud
20 Janurary 2010: Finals Week
13 January 2010: Green Guilt by Stephen Asma
06 January 2010: Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom by Henry Giroux
30 December 2009: No Discussion Group
23 December 2009: A Just Cause Does Not Equal a Just War by Howard Zinn
16 December 2009: Time for a Smarter Approach to Global Warming by Bjorn Lomborg
09 December 2009: German Lessons by Clay Risen
02 December 2009: The Puzzle of Boys by Thomas Bartlett
25 November 2009: Do the Right Thing by Sarah Sewall
18 November 2009: a brief story will be provided at the discussion group on Wed. night
11 November 2009: Death is Different by Carol Miller
04 November 2009: One week vacation. 🙂
28 October 2009: The Geek Defense by Erica Westly
21 October 2009: Mad Men 2.0 by David Sirota
14 Oct 2009: No meeting (MEA)
07 October 2009: Animal Liberation at 30 by Peter Singer
30 September 2009: Interview with Philip Zimbardo
23 September 2009: The Specter of Illiteracy and the Crisis of Democracy by Henry Giroux
16 September 2009: The Age of Enhancement by David Edmonds
09 September 2009: Try to watch Obama’s speech and then read Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care by Sarah Palin
02 September 2009: Is It Now a Crime to be Poor? by Barbara Ehrehnreich
26 August 2009: The Omnivore’s Delusion by Blake Hurst

Summer 2009

12 August: What you don’t know about your friends by Drake Bennett
July 29: Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood by Michael Chabon
July 22: Sued by the Forest by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
July 15: Universal Health Care Isn’t Worth Our Freedom by Thomas Szasz
July 8: Beauty and Desecration by Roger Scruton
July 1: The conclusion of The Left Hand of Darkness and selection of a new book
June 24: The first ten chapters of The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
June 17: Sex Selection: Nobody’s Business? by William Saletan

2008-09 School Year

June 10: The Consolations of Pessimism by Alain de Botton and determing our reading schedule for summer.
June 3: Why Girls Are So Mean to Each Other by Jesse Bering
May 27: Parents’ Rights, Judges’ Rules by Kate Dailey
May 20: Don’t! by Jonah Lehrer
May 13: There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
May 06: Week Off (AP Exam Week)
April 29: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education by William Deresiewicz
April 22: Life, Liberty, and Abortion Reduction by James Kerian
April 15: Duped by Eric Adelman
April 8: Fiction and Faction by Andrew McCarthy
April 1: Duped by Eric Adelman (not meeting due to Teen Board tonight)
March 23: How Soccer is Ruining America: A Jeremiad by Stephen Webb
March 16: Growing up on Facebook by Peggy Orenstein
March 11: Rethinking Race in the Classroom by Allison Samuels
March 4: Why Can’t A Woman Write the Great American Novel? by Laura Miller (at Fireside)
February 25: Should scientists study possible links between race and IQ? (Yes) and (No)
February 18: My Drug Problem by Virginia Postrel
February 11: A Quibble by Mark Slouka
February 4: When Altruisim Isn’t Moral by Sally Satel (Room 14 at HHS)
January 28: Thieves by Richard Yates
January 14: Not Your Father’s Censorship by Harry Lewis
January 7: Most Likely to Succeed by Malcolm Gladwell (yes, this article, and yes, at Fireside)
Thursday, Jan 1: General Chit Chat and Discussion
December 17: Twenty Years On: Internalising the Fatwa by Kenan Malik (Meeting in Pogreba’s room at HHS this week)
December 10: Love, Hunger, Money by Sherman Alexie
December 3: Moral Fiction by Mary Gordon
November 26: First Person Plural by Paul Bloom
November 19: No Discussion Group (Great Conversations)
November 12: How To Tell a True War Story by Tim O’Brien
November 5: Citizen Gore Vidal by David Barsamian
October 29: A Boy’s Life by Hanna Rosin
October 22: The Secrets of Storytelling by Jeremy Hsu
October 15: Viewing Presidential Debate (6:30) Room 14 at HHS
October 8: In Defense of Prejudice by Jonathan Rauch
October 1: Are Too Many People Going to College? by Charles Murray
September 24: The Professional Panhandling Plague by Steven Malanga
September 17: As Barriers Disappear, Some Gender Gaps Widen by John Tierney (some of the linked research is great, if you have time to look)
September 10: D.C. Tries Cash as Motivator by Dion Haynes

Summer of 2008

Aug 20: The Gospel of Consumption by Jeffrey Kaplan
Aug 13: The Color-Coded Campaign by John Heilemann
Aug 6: Discuss the end of The Satanic Verses and the story of Christian the Lion (ignoring the music)
July 30: The Satanic Verses, pg. 369
July 23: Sections I and II of The Satanic Verses
July 16:Hollywood’s Hero Deficit by James Bowman and distribution of The Satanic Verses. If you would like a copy, please let me know right away.
July 9: The conclusion of Snow
July 2: Is Google Making Us Stupid? by Nicolas Carr
June 25: The first 24 chapters of Snow
June 18: Camp Justice
June 11: The Kindergarchy by Joseph Epstein and assigning reading pages in Snow
June 4: Norms and Deviations: Who’s to Say? by Stanley Fish and selection of summer reading.
We are reading Snow by Orhan Pamuk first. If you were not there tonight and would like me to order you a copy, let me know.