From Cosmos and History, a special issue on the Poetics of Resistance. Cecile Laborde (Princeton): The Danish Cartoon Controversy and the Challenges of Multicultural Politics: A Discussion of The Cartoons That Shook the World. John Wood (NRDC): Separation of Powers Before and After the Seventeenth Amendment. From nthposition, an article on the forgotten conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. Felix Salmon on the dual-taxation meme. From The New Inquiry, Matt Pearce on Standard Gawker English: Writing to please or writing to persuade? The power that a president does and doesn't have: A president has less power than Obama's liberal critics think — but they also have more power than they realize. Why do parents hand their babies to politicians? Don't feel guilty about browsing the Internet at work — turns out it may actually improve your performance. A review of Reason's Dark Champions: Constructive Strategies of Sophistic Argument by Christopher W. Tindale. Shoplifters of the World Unite: Slavoj Zizek on the meaning of the riots. Juan Cole on the Top Ten Myths about the Libya War. Lessons of the Libyan Endgame: After seven months of war, are the rebels ready to rule and what should the West do to help? Why the US should raise taxes: Peter Bofinger on how the German example shows the way out of the debt crisis. From Boing Boing, Nathan Pensky on Twitter, epigrams, and Alexander Pope. Porn, Piracy, and BitTorrent: The film industry mounts a sketchy legal strategy in response to illegal downloads. Did the stimulus work? A review of the nine best studies on the subject. Jonathan Cohn on that "failed" stimulus. A new book discusses the power and fascination of humiliation; Scott McLemee can't look away. The first chapter from History Man: The Life of R. G. Collingwood by Fred Inglis.
