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1:00PM
MAR 20 2008
There is a new kind of gender trouble
From Slate, "why did we get it wrong? Five years on, "liberal hawks" consider their support for the Iraq war; and what, exactly, has the Iraq war achieved? A lot? A little something? Nothing at all? Looking back on the Iraq war at its fifth anniversary, and reckoning with its staggering costs. From The Nation, a cover story on the costs of war (and more). Supreme Court Inc.: Jeffrey Rosen on how the nation’s highest court became increasingly receptive to the arguments of American business. Rumor’s reasons: Why Internet-spread innuendo is so hard to rebut. The Right choice? Andrew J. Bacevich on the conservative case for Barack Obama. Leon Wieseltier parses the Jewish community's fears about Obama. A review of On Empire: America, War, and Global Supremacy by Eric Hobsbawm. From TLS, an article on the hopes and glories of Edward Elgar: How historians, philosophers, modernists, musicologists and musicians have celebrated Elgar's work; a review of Wrestling with Angels: Conversations in Modern Theology by Rowan Williams; and a review of Other Colors: Essays and a Story by Orhan Pamuk. Akhil Reed Amar on reframing the constitutional debate over gun control. A review of Hiroshima: The World’s Bomb by Andrew J. Rotter. At the nation’s elite women’s colleges, there is a new kind of gender trouble: students who enter as one sex and become another.
