online archive
1:00PM
MAR 19 2008
Words to avoid, from A to Z
From Foreign Policy, a photo essay on bombs. A review of Stem Cell Century: Law and Policy for a Breakthrough Technology by Russell Korobkin. More on Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob by Lee Siegel. More bellicose than Bush? It's worth asking what effect all that alleged experience has had on McCain. After the Russian election it may be all change at the top, but who is the real winner? Europe does sex scandals better: Compared with British and French affairs, the Spitzer mess is a bit of a disappointment. Do assassinations change history? It's a tangled question. "Dante's Cove" isn't the only piece of gay schlock to be embraced by the gay and lesbian community – we're quick to latch on to almost anything gay-related and rally around it, no matter how bad it may be. Words to avoid, from A to Z: An alphabet of words that are overused and under-explained. A review of Let Me Stand Alone by Rachel Corrie. A review of Elias Khoury’s Yalo. Meera Nanda asks what lies behind the Hinduisation of the Indian public sphere. The crisis of American masculinity is targeted not only by advertising but also by politics; in the US presidential race, winning the masculinity battle will be crucial. An article on Eliot Spitzer and the price-placebo effect. That "thou shalt not" list just got longer: From the folks who brought you the Inquisition comes a new set of deadly sins.
