From Triple Canopy, Big Brother's Portfolio: Remaking photography with Google Street View; and a report from the Rebel’s Republic, a breakaway state in western Bosnia where the Minister of Smiles rules alongside the Minister of Artificial Blondes. Slavoj Zizek on The Secret Clauses of the Liberal Utopia. From Vanity Fair, Gail Sheehy on Hillaryland at War: Hillary Clinton’s campaign had it all; it was a battle that revealed why she came so close to victory, as well as why she didn't make it. A review of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics by Nina L. Khrushcheva. Sex every day? How men and women differ on the idea. From LRB, a review of books by Philip K. Dick. David Goodhart on how the possibility of the break up of Britain in the near future should prompt the English to think seriously about who they are — and who they would like to become. Who owns Central Park? How Frederick Law Olmsted’s 843 acres of civilizing wilderness became a type-A battleground. What's colorless and tasteless and smells like money? In the heyday of campus radicalism, protests took place at the drop of a hat and Marxism ruled, but today's young are quieter; there's still commitment but now it's to getting a good job. Uncensored, racist, and shockingly nasty, online gossip forum Juicy Campus has students trembling — but should it be banned?
