online archive
5:00PM
FEB 13 2008
The exercise of imagined history
From Postmodern Culture, Jeffrey T. Nealon (PSU): The Swerve around P: Literary Theory after Interpretation. From Sens Public, an article on how the exercise of imagined history is probably one of the best antidotes to violence. Negative campaign: Winning consumer votes by catering to political disdain. The Maverick Myth: You can't read a story about John McCain without seeing the word "maverick". From Vanity Fair, an excerpt from Not the Girl Next Door: Joan Crawford, a Personal Biography by Charlotte Chandler; inside the making of "The Graduate": An excerpt from Pictures at a Revolution by Mark Harris; an article on Mailer’s movie madness; and Michael Wolff on how reality shows and YouTube are killing the Hollywood story. To hell with the Archbishop of Canterbury: Christopher Hitchens on Rowan Williams' dangerous claptrap about "plural jurisdiction". When considering Socrates in the 21st century, we're drawn back into the ancient Greek culture wars, writes Carlin Romano. A review of Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Eminem and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs. From Edge, a talk with Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald on the implicit association test. A review of Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology by Massimo Pigliucci and Jonathan Kaplan.
