Motel Bookings, Condom Sales Surge Post Nuke Test

Motel Bookings, Condom Sales Surge Post Nuke Test

Condoms... because who would want to bear the responsibility of bringing children into such a dangerous world?

More on Verona

Via Amy Welborn:

English translation of the speech
Magister
Fr. Z

Two Hobbit films planned

News from IGN Movies

Confession of Pain teaser

Battle of Wits trailer (dl)

Blessed Charles of Austria

His feast day was last Saturday, October 21.

"You monarchist!"

No, not really. Not like Andrew Cusack or the Western Confucian. But I do have a fondness for European history and its heritage.

Charles of Austria bio
Saving the Best for Last: Blessed Karl I of Austria by Father Ignacio Barreiro (original)
Emperor Charles I: World War I peace campaigner by James Bogle
The Beatification of Europe’s Catholic Heart: Emperor Charles of Austria
(original)

Blessed Charles of Austria (appears to be dead--so is the unofficial beatification page, it had a lot of photos of him and his family...)

Hapsburg.com
Otto von Habsburg (wiki) "Monarchy versus Republic"
you can find some interviews of him here
Habsburg wedding

Dr. Peter Chojnowski has a blog, but it hasn't been updated for a while. See his "Corporation Christendom: The True School of Salamanca"
(published in Angelus)

Robert Spencer podcast interview

on his book The Truth about Muhammad: Pt 1, Pt 2 (source)

Updates by Robert Hirsch on peak oil

Over at DNI:

In-depth introduction to the issue and its complexities. Prepared for the Atlantic Council, 23 October 2006 (735 KB PDF)
Brief overview of the major issues. To be presented at "Energy Sustainability in the Global Enterprise" at the University of Wisconsin, November 30 - December 1, 2006 (189 KB PDF)

AK-47: The Weapon that Changed the Face of War

Review: AK-47: The Weapon that Changed the Face of War
Review by Sean Kilcarr

The book's website.

My washing machine

I read about washing machines that don't require electricity, just human power, in Eric Brende's Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology. (Excerpt from the book. Interview.) Mr. Brende had purchased one for the family, and it served them quite well. The other day I was wondering if I would be able to find a woman willing to use such a contraption, or if we're just too addicted to electricity. Anyways, I haven't been able to find the one he mentioned in the book on the web, at least I don't think I have.

I've seen some ads for the Wonder Washing, like the following:
Electricity Free Clothes Washing

but not much else... if I can find Mr. Brende's e-mail address I'll have to ask him where he got his.

Some engineering project:
The Intermediate Washing Machine

Gisaeng Becomes Cultural Icon of 2006

Gisaeng Becomes Cultural Icon of 2006


The gisaeng, women who entertained guests at any feast or den of worldly pleasures with their songs, dances and other accomplishments, are emerging as the pop culture icon of 2006. It began as just a flicker at the end of last year, but now the stories of the gisaeng are turning up everywhere -- in movies, musicals, plays and comic books, just to name a few -- in a genre-spanning blaze. Every producer under the sun is trying to come up with their own spin on the gisaeng business.

At front and center of the hysteria is Hwang Jin-I, who is recognized as the queen of female entertainers during the Chosun era.

She was not just out there pouring drinks and selling her body, but was the epitome of the gisaeng ideal: competent in verse, calligraphy and painting. What’s more, she was an illegitimate child which kept her from reaching the top echelons of the strict social hierarchy of the era, and her fight against the classification has made her into a symbol of resistance. The passion that lies deep under the charm only known to the gisaeng and their defiant humanity must be part of the reason for the revival of interest.

A poster for the TV drama ‘Hwang Jin-I.’

In the KBS 2TV history drama “Hwang Jin-I,” the gisaeng is on the airwaves. Another film is slated for early next year starring Song Hye-gyo and Yoo Ji-tae. On for one month starting Nov. 25 at the Universal Art Center, a similarly-themed musical will be presented.

Actor Heo Joon-ho is simultaneously producing the Haeohwa story, also about a gisaeng, as a TV drama and a musical. The three characters that make up the name Haeohwa -- “understanding,” “language” and “flower” -- sum up the gisaeng. The work follows the lives of four young women who enter a school for gisaeng called Yegiwon. Auditions for the show started on Monday, and Kim Hee-seon and Park Ji-yoon have already been cast.
The cover of the hit comic book ‘Story of a Gisaeng’ by Kim Dong-hwa.

The hit comic book “Story of a Gisaeng” by Kim Dong-hwa has been picked up by A-Com International and Showtic Communications and is in the process of being transformed into a TV drama and movie.

Experts agree that the entertainers are a novel topic and have a competitive edge.

“There is love and passion, with dancing and singing naturally woven in -- it’s just a charming subject matter,” Showtic Communications CEO Kim Jong-heon says. “This is the cutting edge of the history drama boom that takes another look at history.” He added foreigners will also be able to really enjoy these programs, “so it may become the new blue chip of the Korean Wave.”

(englishnews@chosun.com )

Now that I think about it, I wonder if the Gisaeng craze has anything to do with the Geisha craze (sparked by Memoirs of a Geisha?)...

vids: HK stuff

G416


G36C


UMP

George Clooney in another B&W movie

Apple trailers for The Good German

also starring Cate Blanchette and Tobey Maguire

I'm not sure what to make of the use of B&W in this--it certainly doesn't have the feel of a movie made in the 40s and 50s... (I haven't seen Good Night and Good Luck yet.)

PJB answers the NY Times

on Bill O'Reilly

(from Mr. Buchanan's blog)

The Fall of Man and the Development of Agriculture

Just recently I was reading another article (I forgot where) talking about the importance of transition from hunter-gathering to agriculture that is recorded in the Book of Genesis. I don't recall any sort of judgment being made about the transition, not like the one that is made in Daniel Quinn's Ishmael. According to the wiki entry on the novel:

Ishmael's interpretation of Genesis 2.4

Ishmael points out that the story was written by the Semites, and later adapted to work within Hebrew and Christian belief structures. Ishmael proposes that Abel and his extinction metaphorically represents the nomadic Semites and their losing conflict with agriculturalists. As they were driven further into the Arabian peninsula, the Semites became isolated from other herding cultures and, according to Ishmael, illustrated their plight through oral history, which was later adopted into the Hebrew book of Genesis.

Ishmael denies that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was forbidden of humans simply to test human's self-control. Instead, Ishmael proposes that the Tree represents the choice to bear the burden of responsibility of deciding which species may live and which should die. This is a necessary decision agricultural peoples must make when deciding which organisms to cultivate, which to displace, and which to kill in protection of the first.

Ishmael explains that the Fall of Adam represents the Semitic belief that once mankind usurps this responsibility--historically decided through natural ecology (i.e. food chains) -- that mankind will perish. He cites as fulfillment of this prophecy contemporary environmental crises such as endangered or extinct species, global warming, and modern mental illnesses.

An understanding of the development of agriculture that is consonant with the Traditional understanding of the Fall--

It seems to me that in Eden, the domino of Adam and Eve over all of nature, such that they could survive easily from the fruits of the earth, without having to labor, and this would be the way of life passed on to their children had they not disobeyed God. However, once they disobeyed God, they were "expelled from Eden" (or Eden disappeared was destroyed), and Creation was no longer obedient to them, just as they had disobeyed God. Hence, they could no survive, multiply, and prosper by simply gathering their food. The application of human labor to produce food was a consequence of Adam's sin, and not the sin itself, and though not strictly necessary, since there have been hunter-gathering cultures since then, it seems to me that some sort of agriculture is necessary for the growth and cultural development of human communities.

The Ishmael Community
Read Ishmael

Al Kimel responds to Robert Miller re: limbo

The Pontificator's reply.

He will be ordained to the priesthood on December 3. Please pray for him.

Martin Adams, Long March to mythology

Long March to mythology
By Martin Adams

on the Long March of the Communist Army to Shaanxi

Hues From Late Choson Kingdom in Bloom

Hues From Late Choson Kingdom in Bloom


By Seo Dong-shin
Staff Reporter


Part of “Blossoming Red and While Plum Trees,” painted by Yu Suk on a decorative folding screen in 1868.

Attention to the culture and art scenes of the late Choson Kingdom (1312-1910) period is long overdue. The political and social turmoil of Korea’s last dynasty has largely overshadowed other aspects of the period.

But now, the pendulum may be swinging back. Following an exhibition of exclusive photos from 1880 to 1940 at the Museum of Photography that opened last month, an exhibition kicked off last week at the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art. It is an attempt to shed light on paintings from the late Choson period.

For the exhibition ``Paintings of Late Joseon (Choson) Dynasty,’’ the museum assembled some 80 paintings of 27 outstanding painters who were active from 1850 to 1910.

Considering that great art often feeds on energy created by confusion and radical changes in a society, the artistic achievement during the period should be worth a look.


Part of a calligraphy, which is named after a tea room that belongs to Kim Jeong-hui's friend is representative of Kim Jeong-hui's style. It is estimated to be from 19th century.

Not only was a dynasty that had lasted over 100 years declining, but also new technologies and culture from the West were also flowing through. Art was not the monopoly of the rich and the aristocracy anymore; painters from ``chungin,’’ or middle class were becoming active.

``There is a tint of decadence that can be so easily found during the last years of an era,’’ said Cho Ji-yoon, a researcher at Leeum, of the paintings at the exhibition. ``There is also much energy coming from confusion.’’

Take, for example, ``Blossoming Red and White Plum Trees,’’ which is placed on the gateway to the exhibition. Painted by Yu Suk in 1868, national treasure No. 1199 perfectly signals a ``transition in aesthetics,’’ from the literati painting style that stressed philosophy and simplicity to one that focuses on the decorative function of a painting with diverse colors.

Master painters featured in the exhibition include Jang Seung-up, a self-taught genius whose life was made into a 2002 film ``Chiwason’’ by renowned director Im Kwon-taek. His eight paintings on display testify to the versatility of his talent, their subjects ranging from eagles and pheasants to landscapes and figures taken from traditional Chinese stories.

But the painter who had the most profound influence on the painters of the time was undoubtedly Kim Jeong-hui (1786-1856), an excellent scholar, artist and calligrapher who used the penname Chusa.

Kim, whose artistic world stands in the limelight this year, marking the 150th anniversary of his death, dominated the scene with a discerning eye as well as a deep understanding of poetry, painting and calligraphy. Kim’s evaluations of the paintings of the disciples, eight of which are on display, show his authority and standard for ``good painting’’ at that time.

The diversity at the exhibition and the gaiety of some of the paintings make it worth a visit at the Leeum. It is the first time the museum has held an exhibition of old paintings; it focuses on collecting a wide range of contemporary art.

The museum also offers various lectures, symposiums and concerts on the sidelines. A special concert ``Mozart, Shostakovich and Piazzola’’ will be held this Thursday.

The exhibition runs through Jan. 2.

The museum is located near Hangangjin station on subway line 6. Admission costs 5,000 won for adults and 3,000 won for children. For more information, visit www.leeum.org or (02) 2014-6901.


saltwall@koreatimes.co.kr
10-23-2006 17:47

Oakland aims to be oil independent by 2020

Source

Published on 18 Oct 2006 by Energy Preparedness / Energy Bulletin. Archived on 18 Oct 2006.
Oakland aims to be oil independent by 2020

by Nancy Nadel (staff)

On Tuesday, October 17, 2006, the Oakland City Council unanimously passed legislation, sponsored by Councilmember Nancy Nadel, making Oakland the first city in the U.S. to aim for oil independence by 2020.

Inspired by Sweden, which earlier this year released a landmark national action plan that articulates programs and policy measures that are expected to reduce oil consumption in Sweden by as much as 40-50% by 2020, the City of Oakland hopes to provide a similar model for cities in the U.S. - which is facing an absence of state and federal leadership on sustainable energy policy.

Reporting within six months of formation, an Oakland task force composed of local, regional, and national experts will develop a robust oil independence plan, consolidating measures from around the world that can be used locally to reduce oil consumption citywide. This action plan will recommend bold initiatives to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, establish Oakland as a national leader in the green economy and green jobs creation, and seek to secure Oakland's energy needs.

Councilmember Nadel notes, "Oakland can be at the cutting edge of sustainable thinking if we create a plan that not only improves the environment but also spurs new green jobs and business opportunities."

Policy makers note that cities are not only becoming the dominant global institutions of our society but increasingly the models and laboratories for change in the US, driving policy in other municipalities as well as at the state level. Examples from the Bay Area include Oakland's hydrogen fueling station, Berkeley's innovative commercial and residential efficiency programs, construction and demolition ordinances, biodiesel initiatives and San Francisco's tidal power project.

Increasingly cities are coming together to influence state and national policy as seen in the local-level initiatives that have been spearheaded through, for example, San Francisco's Urban Environmental Accords that has 100 Mayors from around the world signed on, and the city of Seattle's U.S. Mayor's Climate Protection Agreement. As of today, Mayors in 319 cities that represent 51.4 million people have signed the U.S. Mayor's Climate Protection Agreement and committed their communities to meet the greenhouse gas reduction goals of the Kyoto Protocol (7% reduction from 1990 levels by 2012). Councilmember Nadel's initiative is another important landmark that could become a local turning point in a global issue.

Sustainability organizations such as SustainLane.com have ranked Oakland in the top 6 most sustainable cities in the U.S.

Oakland Resolution text [PDF]

That's nice, but how is this feasible? To be 100% oil independent is to be 100% economically self-sufficient.

Neocatechumenate to Coach Russian Orthodox Priests

Neocatechumenate to Coach Russian Orthodox Priests

Founders Enter Agreement With Moscow Patriarchate

MOSCOW, OCT. 22, 2006 (Zenit.org).- In agreement with the Russian Orthodox Church, the Neocatechumenal Way will teach its methods of evangelization to Orthodox priests.

Kiko Argüello and Father Mario Pezzi, initiators and leaders of the Neocatechumenal Way, told ZENIT of the plan. They met Thursday with Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, president of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate's Foreign Relations Department.

The agreement reached will be implemented in two stages, Argüello explained: Initially, the Russian Orthodox priests will be taught the Way's principles of evangelization, and then they will be trained.

"We do not intend to engage in proselytism," clarified Father Pezzi. "Metropolitan Kirill and the Orthodox delegation that accompanied him received us very cordially and were aware that we had informed Cardinal Walter Kasper about our visit." Cardinal Kasper is the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

The initiative to take the methods and principles of evangelization of the Neocatechumenal Way to the Russian Orthodox Church arose within the Way itself and took several years to develop.

For love

Kiko Argüello said: "During our meeting with Metropolitan Kirill we explained to him that the Way hopes that the people's faith will grow, so that a change will take place in them and they will be able to love. We have come to Russia to show our love.

"In Europe, people are abandoning Christ and society is increasingly penetrated by individualism where what is important is the satisfaction of the 'ego,' the delight of our 'I.' Few people come to church, that is why God is preparing a new evangelization. And the Russian Orthodox Church knows that there must be a different way of catechizing."

During a meeting the leaders had in Moscow's Cathedral on Friday night, Argüello, Father Pezzi and Way co-founder Carmen Hernández thanked some 250 members of the Neocatechumenal communities of Russia and Estonia, who met on the occasion of their visit, for the formation they have given and the support of the groups.

Uh... I wonder if the Russian Orthodox know about the Neocatechumenal liturgies. I doubt that the "methods of evangelization" will include recommendations about the liturgy, but who knows. Where can one find out more about these methods of evangelization? While communal life can be a witness to Christ, it cannot be divorced from the local Church, and authentic community is grounded in charity and the practice of the other virtues, it cannot be reduced to a manual of directions aimed at increasing membership (which taken to an extreme can include psychological maniuplation, which can lead to accusations that a group is really a dangerous cult). Not that I am saying the Neocatechumenal Way is a cult; still others have written about the group and its practices:

Sandro Magister, Liturgy: Benedict XVI Brings the Neocatechumenals Back to the Right Way
Bad History, Bad Guide. The Strange Liturgy of the Neocatechumenals

From Christian Order:
FATHER ENRICO ZOFFOLI, The Neocatechumenal Way
D.J. REDFERN, The Liturgy of the Neo-Catechumenal Way
MICHAEL McGRADE, THE LAST TROJAN HORSE?

wiki

The Grand Silence coming to ND

via Amy Welborn

Films and Faith Series

• “Diary of a Country Priest” (1951), Oct. 27, 7 p.m. – directed by Robert Bresson, in French with English subtitles

• “The Ninth Day” (2005), Oct. 27, 10 p.m. – directed by Volker Schlondorff, in German with English subtitles

• “The Flowers of St. Francis” (1950), Oct. 28, 3 p.m. – directed by Roberto Rossellini, in Italian with English subtitles

• “Therese” (1986), Oct. 28, 10 p.m., and Oct. 29, 7 p.m. – directed by Alain Cavalier, in French with English subtitles

• “Into Great Silence” (2005), Oct. 29, 3 p.m. – directed by Philip Groening

Why don't we have something like this at BC? I'd prefer it to strive towards being a better Catholic university rather than trying to become the "Catholic Harvard."

Anyways, KK you're lucky you might have a chance to see The Grand Silence (or "Into Great Silence" as it is translated here). Then again, maybe you'll be too busy studying.

Plus, TLF fansite for The Monastery. (Thanks again to Amy Welborn.)
Listen to some of their chanting here.

Pinckaers!

As I was walking down Lake St. back towards the apartment, after returning from the airport via the T, I passed by an older Asian gentleman who was reading Fr. Pinckaer's Morality: The Catholic View. Was he going to BC? Who at BC would be teaching a class using Fr. Pinckaer's work, one wonders. I think I might have seen the book at the bookstore for an intro philosophy or theology class, but I can't remember which one, and who was teaching. And what is this gentlman's reaction to the book? When I go to the bookstore next, I will try to find out who is using the book.

A review of John le Carré's The Mission Song

Review by Martyn Drakard for MercatorNet

John Mark Butterworth reviews Flicka:

The worst thing is that they took a boy's story and turned it into a chick flicka. The fashion now is female empowerment always and ever, as girls are taught to be tough, insolent, courageous, and aggressive. Boys get to taught to be weak, goofy. sneaky, vulgar and dumb.

and

Flicka is a strained, over wrought and over elaborate tale where none of the conflicts are real, and the relationship between her and the horse is false. We never find any reason why the horse should accept Katy as a friend. She doesn't do anything to earn it, and then the story devolves into the great contest of a wild horse race that will solve everything!

And possibly the worst offense:

Wyoming, set as a back drop in many scenes, is wasted. The scenes are far too brief and there is generally nothing in the scene to glory in it as much as we would want to.

Elena Maria Vidal, On the Anniversary of the Death of Marie-Antoinette

The anniversary was last Monday, but I only came upon her post today. Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette came out last week, and melkimx wants to see the movie because she liked Coppola's Lost in Translation. Me... I generally like period pieces, but I don't know if this is my kind of movie. Plus, it's Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette, who squints too much, according to Pete Takeshi.

It would be nice to have a movie about the Vendée uprising.

Opus Dei prelate to be interviewed

Opus Dei leader: television interview
The Prelate of Opus Dei to be interviewed on EWTN.

The current leader, Bishop Javier Echevarría will appear on the Spanish-language show “Nuestra Fe en Vivo” (Live: Our Faith)...

The interview will air on October 23 at 6 pm Eastern Standard Time in the United States (12 midnight in Spain) and will be repeated throughout the week.

Real women wear size 46 - and smile

Real women wear size 46 - and smile
By Adela Lo Celso and Alegria Duran-Ballen

Bobos

What prompts this post in the firstplace? From Touchstone Magazine: Over the Counterculture

The term bobo was coined by David Brooks, who wrote Bobos in Paradise. In so far as the book was published a while ago, the topic of bobo isn't current, but if its observations of American life are accurate (and I'm not saying that they are), then it's a topic worth revisiting, especially for those who like to collect data and frame strategies based on second-hand data... still, regardless of what one thinks of second-hand data, it must be admitted that suburbs, as an embodiment of the American Way of Life, does represent certain kinds of obstacles to evangelization within American society.

From an interview:

GWEN IFILL: So, David, I have to start by asking you the most obvious question of all: What the heck is a bobo?

DAVID BROOKS: A bobo is a bourgeois bohemian. These are the people who are thriving in the information age. They're the people, you go into their homes and they've got these renovated kitchens that are the size of aircraft hangars, with plumbing. You know, you see the big sub- zero refrigerators and you open the door and you think, they could stick an in-law suite in the side. So these are the people who are really making a lot of money, and I spent the last few years going across upscale America looking at the people who are really thriving in the information age. And one of the things, the chief characteristic I noticed, was that they've smashed the old categories.

It used to be easy to tell a bourgeois from a bohemian. And the bourgeois were the straight-laced suburban types, went to church, worked in corporations. And the bohemians were the arty free spirits, the rebels. But if you look at upscale culture, at the upper middle classes, the people in Silicon Valley, you find they've smashed all the categories together. Some people seem half yuppie-bourgeois and half hippie- bohemian. And so if you take bourgeois and bohemian and you smash them together, you get the ugly phrase "bobo."

GWEN IFILL: I would never call you "yuppie-bourgeois," but I have to ask the question: Are you a bobo?

DAVID BROOKS: Yeah, I consider myself a bobo with bad grades. If I had studied harder, I could have got into Harvard, and really made all the money and had the really big kitchen.

David Brook's attitude towards the BoBos?

GWEN IFILL: But bobos are by definition people who are compromisers, they're looking for middle ground. They shop at Pottery Barn so they can get things that look safe, and they shop at REI, where they can act like if they're having an adventure vacation, but in the end, they're people who are trying to find a way to conform. But that doesn't skew with things as fundamental as, say, religious faith does.

DAVID BROOKS: Right, no. I have chapters about consumption and business, where I'm mostly positive. But then I have chapters about the effect on our intellectual life, our religious life and our political life, and there, there are real problems. Religious life, for example. I ran across a rabbi in Montana who describes his faith as "flexidoxy," which is a great phrase for bobo morality, because it starts with the bohemian urge to be flexible, freedom, be autonomous. But then it says, "well, I don't want too much autonomy, I want ritual, I want order in my life, I want roots." And so there's also orthodoxy mixed in. And so he's trying to... many bobos are trying to build a foundation of obligation, build a structure of obligation, on a foundation of choice. And they sort of mush things together. Politically, also-- you get Bill Clinton, who's an ultimate bobo, mixing the left and the right, anti-ideological turning. They're all into such an ideological mush, and it's an unsatisfying style of politics.

GWEN IFILL: Is there any evidence of class resentment springing up to this new class of educated, moneyed elite?

DAVID BROOKS: Yeah, I thought there would be when I wrote the proposal for this book. The final chapter was going to be "The Revolt Against the Bobo- ouisie" or something. Because on the one hand, they're getting richer than most of the country. On the other hand, they've got elevated sensibilities. You walk into a restoration hardware. If you don't have the cultural references to get all the jokes and the puns, you know, it's no sensibility, no service. But when I traveled around the country, I found, actually, relatively little social resentment. Instead, I found every attitude that the bobos were adopting, went down the society and were adopted by other groups.

For example, I was driving through Montana, really in the middle of nowhere, pulled off into a truck stop, and there was a cappuccino stand there. But not only was there a cappuccino stand, it was six feet off the ground so the truckers didn't have to get out of their cabs. They could just reach their arm out, and get their espressos, and I found that again and again and again -- not only in consumption, but in attitudes about religion and about politics, this sort of mushy reconciliation between the two different ethoses the bobos make, lots of people are making.

And towards suburbia?

PEOPLE MOVE TO Sprinkler Cities for the same reasons people came to America or headed out West. They want to leave behind the dirt and toxins of their former existence--the crowding and inconvenience, the precedents, and the oldness of what suddenly seems to them a settled and unpromising world. They want to move to some place that seems fresh and new and filled with possibility.

Sprinkler City immigrants are not leaving cities to head out to suburbia. They are leaving older suburbs--which have come to seem as crowded, expensive, and stratified as cities--and heading for newer suburbs, for the suburbia of suburbia.

One of the problems we have in thinking about the suburbs is that when it comes to suburbia the American imagination is motionless. Many people still have in their heads the stereotype of suburban life that the critics of suburbia established in the 1950s. They see suburbia as a sterile, dull, Ozzie and Harriet retreat from the creative dynamism of city life, and the people who live in the suburbs as either hopelessly shallow or quietly and neurotically desperate. (There is no group in America more conformist than the people who rail against suburbanites for being conformist--they always make the same critiques, decade after decade.)

The truth, of course, is that suburbia is not a retreat from gritty American life, it is American life. Already, suburbanites make up about half of the country's population (while city people make up 28 percent and rural folk make up the rest), and America gets more suburban every year.

See also his book On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense.


Other articles by David Brooks:
Op-eds in the NY Times
On the Playing Fields of Suburbia
Take a Ride to Exurbia
The Triumph of Hope over Self-Interest
The Brawl in the Sprawl

Interview with Joseph S. Lucas; with Dick Staub on the spiritual life of bobos;

wiki

In reaction to David Brooks:
Paradise Glossed
David Potz, Why Liberals are Turning on Their Favorite Conservative
JHK, Clueless in Suburbia
Consider This: The Bobo Future

Reviews of Bobos in Paradise:
Clay Risen
Robert Locke
Janet Maslin
Kurt Andersen

Reviews of On Paradise Drive:
Brian Ladd
Michael Kinsley (another)
Joanne McNeil
Nicholas von Hoffman
Laura Miller