Articles by David Abbott

Looks Like Entertainment: Thoughts on New Media and Big Ideas

Filed under Archive | October, 2008

Considering Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman. Since John Abbott and Heather MacTaggart completed the pre-publication edition of Overschooled but Undereducated: Society’s Failure to Understand ... Read on

Notes on Adolescence

Filed under Archive | July, 2008

Considering The Primal Teen by Barbara Strauch and The Dignity of Difference by Jonathan Sacks. I don’t remember being particularly aware of being a teenager, ... Read on

How Should One Live? Rejecting the Perfectibility of Man

Filed under Archive | May, 2008

Considering The Selfish Capitalist by Oliver James, The High Price of Materialism by Tim Kasser, The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz and Artificial Happiness by Ronald ... Read on