online archive
5:00PM
APR 8 2008
Guess who’s back?
Is Briana Waters a terrorist? In an alarming case, U.S. attorneys exploited post-9/11 counterterrorism laws to pursue and prosecute an environmental activist. A review of Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost—And How It Can Find Its Way Back by Mickey Edwards. John McWhorter reviews Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card—and Lose by Larry Elder. A review of The Sexual Paradox: Troubled Boys, Gifted Girls, and the Real Difference Between the Sexes by Susan Pinker (and more). Guess who's back? Old flames still smolder, especially when they're early love affairs, which leave a particularly vivid mark in our minds. An interview with Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. I'm With Stupid: An article on the perennially embattled free speech zone over our chests. Chris Mooney reviews Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health by David Michaels. A look at what it will really take to stop global warming. A review of Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others by David Day. From The Root, a look at Tyler Perry's conservative tent revival; and an article on Tyler Perry, Rev. Wright and the end of the chitlin circuit. Terror U: What's behind the boom in homeland-security and emergency-management majors?
1:00PM
APR 8 2008
Practical probability problems
From the Journal of World-Systems Research, David Scott (Brunel): The 21st Century as Whose Century?; and a review of The World System and the Earth System: Global Socioenvironmental Change and Sustainability Since the Neolithic. The introduction (and Problems 1 and 2) to Digital Dice: Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems by Paul J. Nahin. The introduction to One Day That Shook the Communist World: The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy by Paul Lendvai. MBAs in Madrid: An article on the rise of the European B-School. From the latest issue of Foucault Studies, Timothy O'Leary (Hong Kong): Foucault, Experience, Literature; an interview with Colin Gordon on The Foucault Effect in the English-speaking world; a review of On the Use and Abuse of Foucault for Politics by Brent Pickett; a review of Foucault, Freedom and Sovereignty by Sergei Prozorov; a review of Foucault on Freedom by Johanna Oksala; and a review of The Modern Self in the Labyrinth: Politics and the Entrapment Imagination by Eyal Chowers. A review of The Economic Naturalist by Robert H Frank; The Logic of Life by Tim Harford; and The Dismal Science by Stephen A Marglin. Whether denouncing France's art establishment, shocking 19th century sensibilities or challenging Napoleon III, Gustave Courbet never held back.
9:00AM
APR 8 2008
Dirty, sexy money
From The New Yorker, Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris on the woman behind the camera at Abu Ghraib. Biologist EO Wilson says soccer moms are natural history’s enemy. Critics criticised: Strong criticism is not necessarily intolerance. A new issue of Ephemera is out, including a review of Arjun Appadurai's Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger; a review of Out of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation by Peter Hallward; and a review of books on Althusser. An interview with Steven Waldman, author of Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America (and a review). Peak oil?: It won't be easy but we can fix our oil and climate problems at the same time. RIP stand-alone biz section: They were thin, sure, but they were something. An interview with Elizabeth Hess, author of Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human. From the first issue of Triple Canopy, an interview with Samantha Power, author of Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World (and more and more and more). The loose-tongued ambassador: An interview with Guyanese academic and novelist David Dabydeen, spurred on to great achievement by Enoch Powell. It turns out Wall Street is really predicated on greed. Dirty, sexy money: The writer Rupert Smith on his lucrative porn-lit sideline.
