A new issue of Reartikulacija is out. Dylan Kissane (CEFAM): Mapping International Chaos. From Politics and Culture, a special issue on The Left at War by Michael Berube, including an introduction, and contributions by Nick Cohen, Russell Berman, and Michael Berube, among others. From Standpoint, Jamie Whyte on why Nassim Nicholas Taleb is overrated and Joseph Bottum on why Charles Taylor is underrated. A time-series delusion: Herbert Gintis reviews Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age by Larry Bartels. Reading by numbers: Science invades the humanities. Game Changer: Why Wikileaks will be the death of big business and big government. Mark Leon Goldberg on why Cote D’Ivoire matters (and more). Why do we need to predict the future? There's "Room for Debate". From Postcolonial Text, a review of The Legacy of Edward W. Said by William V. Spanos. From Soldiers, a series of articles on modernizing and equipping the force. On beings to whom things happen: One of the things about our existence that is seldom reflected upon is that we are simply here and things happen to us because of it. The culture of business: How will we respond to the ever-stronger pushes to envy, to discontent, to growth, to newness, to debt? Why we won't get along: Ed Kilgore on four reasons that bipartisanship is doomed in the next Congress. A new English-language al-Qaeda explosives manual is released online.
