online archive
9:00AM
FEB 20 2008
A cathedral for the god of motors
From The New Yorker, an article on debating torture and counterinsurgency—a century ago. From First Things, an essay on Nietzsche’s deeper truth; a review of After the Baby Boomers by Robert Wuthnow; and this is not your father’s pornography. Christopher Hitchens on the 2,000-year-old panic: A newly reissued novel evokes the charms and hatreds of a lost world and the enduring contradictions of anti-Semitism. America has too many stores; should anything be done about it? A review of Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Okalahoma City to Ground Zero by Marita Sturken. The Raelians have championed some strange causes in the movement's history, but now they are going to bat for the clitoris. A review of Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran by Fatemeh Keshavarz and Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran by Nima Naghibi. Can John McCain reinvent Republicanism? Ryan Lizza investigates. A review of Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West by Benazir Bhutto (and more and more and more and more and more). From Newsweek, a cover story on Michelle Obama. From The Economist, a look at why business succeeds on the web and government mostly fail (and an special report). A cathedral for the god of motors: Welcome to the phenomenon that is BMW World.
