From Daedalus, Martha Nussbaum (Chicago): Toward a globally sensitive patriotism; Craig Calhoun (SSRC): Cosmopolitanism in the modern social imaginary; Seyla Benhabib (Yale): The legitimacy of human rights; Darrin McMahon (FSU): Fear & trembling, strangers & strange lands; Samuel Scheffler (NYU): Cosmopolitanism justice & institutions; Rogers Smith (Penn): Paths to a more cosmopolitan human condition; Margaret Jacob (UCLA): The cosmopolitan as a lived category; Pheng Cheah (UC-Berkeley): What is a world? On world literature as world-making activity; A. A. Long (UC-Berkeley): The concept of the cosmopolitan in Greek & Roman thought; and Helena Rosenblatt (Hunter): Rousseau, the anticosmopolitan? From The Nation, a review of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul by Patrick French (and more by Ian Buruma and more by James Wood and more and more; and more from Bookforum). James Baldwin and V.S. Naipaul, America made the difference: An excerpt from The Men in My Life by Vivian Gornick (and more from Bookforum). From TLS, after the credit crunch, the arts crunch? Hyperbole and boosterism have obscured the sad truth about the so-called renaissance of the arts; and there have always been reporters, but will there always be professionals?: A review of Eyewitness to History by Robert Fox.
