online archive
5:00PM
MAR 20 2008
The alphabet game
From New Politics, Martin Oppenheimer (Rutgers): Does Immigration Hurt U.S.-Born Workers?; Emad El-Din Aysha (AUC): America's Soft Power Dysfunctions; a review of Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor; a special section on Latin America; and an essay on writing about torture. From The New Yorker, Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris on what the Abu Ghraib photographs cannot explain; and Jill Lepore on fake memoirs, factual fictions, and the history of history. From The Economist, are we too dependent on electronic aids? What do Hillary Rodham Clinton’s big-state victories say about race in America? A review of The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph that Shocked America by Louis P. Masur. A review of Darren Wershler-Henry and Lori Emerson's The Alphabet Game: A bpNichol Reader. A look at how social pressure increases voter turnout. An interview with Chris Hedges, author of I Don't Believe in Atheists. All the most illustrious scientists had beards — so why are they such bad news in the lab? From Utne, in this era of pervasive fear, it's important to remember that U.S. history is littered with violent acts of terrorism. Long past the days of the eloquent FDR, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., or John F. Kennedy, Americans have rediscovered the desire to be absorbed by words, stirred by words, even awed by words, again.
