online archive
9:00AM
FEB 25 2008
With a little help from Hollywood
From Open Democracy, an article on how to talk about things we don't know anything about. From National Journal, an Obama-McCain race would probably accelerate the process of scrambling the parties' historic class alignment. Grape expectations: What wine can tell us about the nature of reality. From First Things, an article on Catholic scholars, secular schools. A review of books by Jonathan Kozol. A review of Bush, the Detainees, and the Constitution: The Battle over Presidential Power in the War on Terror by Howard Ball. From Dissent, an article on health care in Taiwan: Why can’t the United States learn some lessons? A review of Aesthetics and Architecture by Edward Winters. From LA Weekly, an article on The Lies and Follies of Laura Albert, a.k.a. JT LeRoy. From The Atlantic, fundamental changes in American life may turn today’s McMansions into tomorrow’s tenements. The introduction to Nation-States and the Multinational Corporation: A Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment by Nathan Jensen. From Radar, how did a black junior senator from Illinois become the golden boy of American politics? With a little help from Hollywood (plus, he's the son Bill and Hillary never had). Has he tapped a new voting bloc? From NYRB, a review of A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win by Shelby Steele.
