Websites of evil

From Ctheory, Jordan Crandall (UCSD): An Actor Prepares. Love-cost analysis: Your long-distance relationship might be more expensive than you think. A look at how George torpedoed Jeb's presidential hopes and sank the family's political dynasty. The introduction to The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson. Websites of Evil: The online worlds of Kim Jong Il, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other notorious unfriendlies. A review of The European Union as Global Actor by Charlotte Bretherton and John Vogler. The introduction to Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics by Philip Pettit. More on The Commission by Philip Shenon. An interview with Jim Ledbetter, editor of a book on Marx's journalism, Dispatches for the New York Tribune. An article on Facebook and the death of privacy. Esther Dyson on the coming ad revolution: Google and Microsoft are so yesterday, and a look at why Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! is not just about online advertising (and more). From Inside Higher Ed, can liberal arts colleges be saved? Single and happy: It’s the norm, not the exception. More and more on Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob by Lee Siegel (and an interview). Reading Lolita in Cairo: A review of Morning and Evening Talk by Naguib Mahfouz.