Denis Dutton is an amazing guy. How he puts together Arts & Letters Daily, daily, is beyond me.  His eye for the interesting is impeccable but to somehow be able to sort through all of the dross and find the gems that he does is the work of an eye that never strains.  Today there are four great articles he profiles with his trademark squibs:

-Hiding Behind the Screen, by Roger Scruton, published in The New Atlantis examines how personal relationships that begin on the internet are affected by the medium and how those virtual relationships affect the "real" thing.

-The Moral Landscape is a new book by Sam Harris, much respected here (See posts September 22, 24, 2006).  Mr. Dutton features a review posted in Barnesandnoblereview.com.

-The German Genius by Peter Watson (See December 7, 2004, January 2, 2005).

-Finally, China's Dilemma, Social Change and Political Reform, an article published in Foreign Affairs (See previous four years).


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