online archive
5:00PM
MAR 18 2008
Apathy as a right
Bruno P. W. Reis (UMG): Going Home in Peace: The Economy of Virtues, and Apathy as a Right. From Dissent, Thomas Pogge on understanding recent trends and political choices about growth and inequality. An interview with Tom Wolfe on how speech made us human. A review of Ceridwen Dovey’s Blood Kin. A review of Sexual Citizens: The Legal and Cultural Regulation of Sex and Belonging by Brenda Cossman. Habitat for Harmony: How to garden the way nature intended. Thomas Ricks on the startling parallels between the Iraq War and the American Revolution. A review of The Purpose of the Past by Gordon Wood. They may not have agreed with his ideology, but those on the left can learn much from William F Buckley's approach to politics. From Mother Jones, how a former Bush appointee has the high court poised to wipe out consumer suits over dangerous medical products and possibly much more. A review of Who's Your City? How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life by Richard Florida. From New York, a cover story on The Governor and the Darkness; and why did Eliot Spitzer go down so quickly, while Bill Clinton managed to hang on indefinitely? A tale of two zipper problems. A review of The Philosopher's "I": Autobiography and the Search for the Self by J. Lenore Wright.
