Being well-read is important. That’s why the Insider is going to be here every Monday setting up you, the reader, with some great reading material, in Monday Reading Madness! We’ll give you links to the big stories, and hopefully fill you in on some lesser-known ones as well.
– The ever-popular subject of the future of conservatism. Check out a few different viewpoints at Becker-Posner (scroll down a few weeks’ posts; there are four posts on it), and an article by William Buckley in the WSJ
– In an extremely bizarre and unprecedented incident, an Air France plane has vanished. Here are the links to several different sources for all the news: New York Times, Yahoo, and CNN
– Not exactly ‘reading’ material, but this is a definite must-see: rare photographs of a land without hope, North Korea, at Foreign Policy Magazine.
– The other huge story, the Bankruptcy of GM, aptly dubbed ‘Government Motors’ by many: CNN, WSJ, and the Economist.
– A funny op-ed by Richard Cohen poking fun at today’s nuisance of pop culture its accompanying ridiculousness.
– In Cornell news, the tragic lacrosse championship loss, and the approval to continue the hotly debated construction of Milstein Hall.
Although I am not a huge lacrosse fan, the loss to syracuse Was truly tragic.