Frank Schipper (TUE): Unravelling hieroglyphs: Urban traffic signs and the League of Nations. An article on Bob Ross, teacher, painter, optimist. An interview with Martha Nussbaum on Gross National Politics. The Dominion of Cute: Singh, Deng and Gromyko manage to combine cuteness with a gentle power. What makes a must read?: A "zeitgeist" book isn't necessarily a good book — few essential bestsellers stand the test of time. George Scialabba reviews Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays and All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays by George Orwell. That’s so aughties: What will the decade that began with Y2K panic and ended with recessionistas yield in terms of funny and embarrassing nostalgia? Nobody ever asks the real question that lurks behind all the scandals: If marriage is so great, why doesn't it work better? Flintoff and friends: How this year's Ashes have exposed the differences between cricketers and journalists. New Scientist goes in depth into psychiatry's civil war. From Forbes, a special report on the world's most powerful people. An interview with David Pan, translator of Carl Schmitt's Hamlet or Hecuba: The Intrusion of the Time into the Play. Here's the latest The New York Times Magazine annual Ideas issue. The joys of print publishing: From the cover story on Tiger Woods and Obama in the just-released January issue of Golf Digest — “Woods is a good role model... Woods never does anything that would make himself look ridiculous.” The Missing: Where have all the Sakharovs gone? Moises Naim wants to know. Berlin's history res-erected: Giant penis sparks bizarre media war.
