Web prowl
The search engine Google has announced its IPO later this year; The Economist has two articles (here and here) dousing the expectations and enthusiasm of the IT community, the like of which was last seen in 1995 when Netscape's IPO effectively launched the dotcom bubble. The Institute for International Economics's Michael Mussa shares his own take on Global Economic Prospects in 2004. The Scientific American on the myth of the begining of time. Two former students of Leo Strauss, the great lodestar of the neoconservatives, write on the late professor's opinion on the true meaning of philosophy.