From Inkanyiso: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Catherine Addison (Zululand): Enlightenment and Virginity. From Triple Canopy, Sam Frank on The Document: “I mumble when I talk. I am not prepossessing. Except when I am” — a written life. Jonathan Cohn on the hard questions about Libyan intervention. From The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert on the lessons from Japan’s disaster; Kenzaburo Oe on the lessons of Hiroshima; James Surowiecki on the economics of natural disasters; and Evan Osnos on living with catastrophe. Still pointed after all these years: On spiked’s 10th birthday, editor Brendan O’Neill explains why we plan to keep on fighting our war of words against illiberalism and misanthropy (and more and more). Geek Love: Richard Lawson on the changing face of gay. A look at how The New York Times paywall could turn out to be a success. What’s almost as disturbing as the persistent right-wing attacks on an institution respected and relied upon by the broad public is NPR’s seeming unwillingness to stand up for itself. From Fafblog, the Medium Lobster on Humanitarians of the Year. The battle over bike lanes isn’t about bikes vs. cars, or borough vs. borough — it’s about competing ideas of what, and who, a city is for; is New York too New York for bike lanes? From TNR, John Judis on how the Left got Libya wrong; and Lawrence Kaplan on Obama, Libya, and the dubious ethics of modern air wars. Sex is cheap: Why young men have the upper hand in bed, even when they're failing in life. Our Zombies, Ourselves: Why we can’t get the undead off our brains. Our psychic living room: Why it's particularly important to read David Foster Wallace. The Next Queen of Magic: Does magic need more female performers to be cool again? An excerpt from Blind Spot: Why We Fail to Do What’s Right and What to Do about It by Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel.
