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9:00AM
APR 24 2008
A struggle between great powers
From PS: Political Science & Politics, Susan A. MacManus and Andrew F. Quecan (South Florida): Spouses as Campaign Surrogates: Strategic Appearances by Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates’ Wives in the 2004 Election. From Dissent, an article on The "New" New Left, the new breed of liberal writers who have emerged on the web; Michael Walzer on the Tibetan Intifada; an article on the Israeli-Palestinian marketplace; and an essay on understanding African American inequality in the twenty-first century. Is the world reverting to a struggle between great powers? Or is the democratising spirit of 1989 still alive? Robert Kagan and Robert Cooper debate. How did the Democrats lose in 1972, and by a historic margin? An excerpt from Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein (and a review). From TLS, is there any subject on earth that isn't grist to Slavoj Zizek's intellectual mill? Terry Eagleton reviews In Defense of Lost Causes; a review of David Reynolds' Summits: Six meetings that shaped the twentieth century; a review of books on the mad worlds of Thomas Middleton. Marxist professors or sensitive students? Michael Shermer and Greg Lukianoff debate academic freedom. From Commonweal, Thomas J. Reese, SJ on reforming the Vatican: What the Church can learn from other institutions.
