From Borderlands, Nick Mansfield (Macquarie): "There is a Spectre Haunting": Ghosts, Their Bodies, Some Philosophers, a Novel and the Cultural Politics of Climate Change; Samuel A. Chambers (JHU) and Alan Finlayson (Swansea): Ann Coulter and the Problem of Pluralism: From Values to Politics; Debora Halbert (Otterbein): A Political Geography of Geneva: Mapping Globalization and its Discontents; Michele Acuto (ANU): Edges of the Conflict: A Three-Fold Conceptualization of National Borders; and Anthony Burke (UNSW): Life, in the hall of smashed mirrors: Biopolitics and terror today. BookLamp.org is a system for matching readers to books through an analysis of writing styles, similar to the way that Pandora.com matches music lovers to new music. More and more on The Book of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley. From Catapult, John D. Roth on why believers might conscientiously abstain from voting; and Denise Frame Harlan ponders the humaneness of democratic high school government elections. From The Global Spiral, a special issue on the subject, self, and soul. The pre-eminent need today is not an exclusive club of democracies, but renewal of the world’s global architecture, write Anne-Marie Slaughter and John Ikenberry. From LRB, Jeremy Harding on the dangers of intervention; and a review of New Labour’s terrible memoirs.
