online archive
9:00AM
FEB 15 2008
A debate that actually matters
From World Affairs, George Packer on Iraq the Place vs. Iraq the Abstraction; Alan Wolfe on Academia (kind of) Goes to War: Chomsky and His Children; Paul Collier on Backbone, Berman, and Buruma: A Debate That Actually Matters; David Rieff reviews The Idea that Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World by Anne-Marie Slaughter; and Christopher Hitchens writes to the president. A look at how college applications can be too good: Admissions officers wary of slick essays. Should unmarried women in their 30s settle for the nearest available guy, even if it means entering into a loveless relationship? n interview with "Doctor of Love" Helen Fisher. Jack Goldsmith and Eric Posner on why the government may lose the Guantanamo trials, even if it wins. The fine art of cool posters: Chicago poster artist Jay Ryan explains how he translates bands’ music into art and why cute critters are crucial to the process. A review of Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon by Barbara Graziosi and Emily Greenwood. The economics of assassination might surprise you as much as they did Harvard's Ben Olken. A brief history of national suicide: The story of how Paraguay went from a wannabe Prussia to the Rodney Dangerfield of South America. Mengele in Paraguay: The Smart Set is on the jungle trail of the Nazi doctor.
