Miscellany: Selfies- aggrandizement; righteousness; delusion; evident; and ish

• Do you ever get nostalgic for the culture war of the 1990s? A new book says it’s all over.

As if.

• The Irish Times salutes the memory of a short-lived postwar literary magazine, launched when Britain embargoed the import of Irish literary materials.

• A book about rationality says, in part, the smarter you are, the more likely you are to fool yourself:

"If you don’t make an effort to become more willing to change your mind, rationality training, as the author admits, can make you less truth-oriented because it gives you powerful tools to dismiss arguments that don’t fit your pre-existing beliefs, especially if you make isolated demands of rigor for views you oppose.  (Law school can also do this to you, but in fairness to lawyers they are usually paid to persuade rather than to find the truth.)"

• How could the Greatest Generation have raised such a bunch of greedy, selfish, and self-righteous dicks?