online archive
5:00PM
MAR 5 2008
A story you won’t believe
From Vanity Fair, the Gaza bombshell: After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs; Jack Worthington II says he may be the long-lost son of J.F.K — a story you won’t believe; and chicks with shticks: Yes, they’re funny. And yes, they have two X chromosomes — want to make something of it? (and a response by Christopher Hitchens) A review of What the Gospels Meant by Gary Wills. From TLS, a review of books on who really brought peace to Belfast. Here's a Christian's guide to making it big in the movie business. From FT, a review of books on Russia and the return of the cold warriors. From The Nation, a review of Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe by Benjamin J. Kaplan and God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 by David Levering Lewis; and Ward Sutton the coming utopia of post-partisan politics. The reluctant anthropologist: An interview with Maurice Bloch. Executives are switching in droves from the computer industry to clean-technology firms; do they have what it takes to succeed? An interview with Patrick Murphy, author of Taking the Hill: From Philly to Baghdad to the United States Congress.
