A new issue of Lost is out. e-flux is in search of the postcapitalist self. From Lyceum, Rebecca Carhart (Taylor): Pacifism and Virtue Ethics. From TNR, Michael Walzer on trying political leaders. From The Atlantic Monthly, a special section on the 14 3/4 Biggest Ideas of the Year (and a blog), including Hanna Rosin on the End of Men (and more); Walter Kirn on why boredom is extinct; Michael Kinsley on the power of no; Walter Issacson on how information wants to be paid for; and David Brooks on why teachers are fair game. From Inside Catholic, Deal Hudson on Glee and the search for postmodern innocence. Conversations with literary websites: An interview with Scott Esposito, editor of the Quarterly Conversation. Is Darth Vader mentally ill, or are the crazy ones the French psychiatrists who set out to "psychoanalyze" Anakin Skywalker? An interview with Eric Davidson, author of We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001. Scott Bradfield reviews Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend by Joshua Blu Buhs and Anatomy of a Beast: Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot by Michael McLeod. Is there sex in heaven? Peter Kreeft wants to know. Why South Africa cannot fail: There is no reason to think this is a country on the brink of chaos — but when the World Cup is over, the same urgent problems will remain in the world’s most unequal country. Regulators are watching Google over antitrust concerns. Changing the course at Newsweek: It’s easy to throw rocks at an industry dealing with a digital competition and a fractured culture — here are a few (helpful) ideas. The twilight of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is nigh — this is a good thing for heterosexuals. A review of Moral Combat: A History of World War II by Michael Burleigh (and more and more and more and more and more).
