The Week’s Best Longreads for March 23, 2013
The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the web this week. By David Sessions.
The Touch-Screen GenerationHanna Rosin, The Atlantic
Young children—even toddlers—are spending more and more time with digital technology. What will it mean for their development?
Bringing Them Back to LifeCarl Zimmer, National Geographic
The revival of an extinct species is no longer a fantasy. But is it a good idea?
The HostageRichard Engel, Vanity Fair
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Last December, a quick trip into Syria turned deadly, NBC News’s Richard Engel recalls, when his team of six was kidnapped by the vicious, pro-government shabiha militia and toyed with by a sadistic captor as they fought against their panic—and for their lives.
Religion Without GodRonald Dworkin, The New York Review of Books
Before he died on February 14, Ronald Dworkin sent to The New York Review a text of his new book, Religion Without God, to be published by Harvard University Press later this year. An excerpt from the first chapter.
The HereticAndrew Ferguson, The Weekly Standard
Who is Thomas Nagel and why are so many of his fellow academics condemning him?
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