online archive
5:00PM
AUG 26 2008
Street art is dead
From Strategic Studies Quarterly, Douglas Peifer (AWC): Genocide and Airpower. From Human Rights and Human Welfare, Eric A. Heinze (Oklahoma): Who Intervenes and Why it Matters: The Problem of Agency in Humanitarian Intervention; exploring universal rights: A symposium on Which Rights Should Be Universal? by William J. Talbott; a review of Democracy as Human Rights: Freedom and Equality in the Age of Globalization by Michael Goodhart; and a review essay on economic rights and the welfare state. Andrew Bacevich on how the next president will disappoint you. In politics, what's fair game and what works? Veteran strategists from both sides of the partisan divide report. How America's favorite tabloid landed one of the biggest political scandals of the year. From The Village Voice, life is short: Have an affair, New York. Radar goes inside the world of high-class hipster hookers; and here's a semiscientific guide to the worst colleges in America. Here are 6 absurd classes taught at actual colleges. From The Philosophers' Magazine, Brian Leiter on the state of the vocation. From Contexts, Dave Zirin on calling sports sociology off the bench. A review of The Book is Dead (Long Live the Book) by Sherman Young. Street Art is Dead: Revolutionary creativity does not shock or entertain the bourgeoisie, read communiques posted at the scene, it destroys them.
1:00PM
AUG 26 2008
The utopian as sadist
The Summer 2008 issue of Contemporary Review is now online. An interview with Michael Kimmel, author of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men. A review of The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence and the World of Homer by Jonathan Gottschall. From Humanitas, Robert H. Bell (Williams): Homer’s Humor: Laughter in The Iliad; Gabriel R. Ricci (Elizabethtown): Goethe’s Faust: Poetry and Philosophy at the Crossroads; Gorman Beauchamp (Michigan): "The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor": The Utopian as Sadist; and James Seaton (MSU): Lyric Poetry, the Novel, and Revolution: Milan Kundera’s Life is Elsewhere. From Anthurium, a special issue on V.S. Naipaul. From The New Yorker, a review of Max Factor: The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World by Fred E. Basten. A review of The Age of Impeachment: American Constitutional Culture Since 1960 by David E. Kyvig. The Orator: Meet Robert Brown Elliot, the Obama of the 1870s. An article on New England's wealth of literary magazines. Handcrafted data: Why many great reference works still rely on paintbrush and pencil, not the digital camera. From PC Magazine, a look at the top 100 undiscovered Web sites. Tiny talents: Instruction, especially in trivial skills, is one of the Web’s great giveaways. From Scientific American, a special section on technology, privacy and security.
9:00AM
AUG 26 2008
A question of balance
From Human Affairs, Hubert Dreyfus (UC-Berkely): Detachment, Involvement, and Rationality: Are We Essentially Rational Animals?; Bart Engelen (Leuven): Rationality, Norms and Institutions: In Search of a Realistic Utopia; and Iris Mendel (Vienna): Myth, Utopia, and Political Action. Andrew Savchenko (URI): Constructing a World Fit for Marxism: Utopia and Utopistics of Professor Wallerstein. Christian Barry (ANU) and Laura Valentini (Oxford): Egalitarian Challenges to Global Egalitarianism. Zofia Stemplowska (Manchester): What's Ideal About Ideal Theory? From City Journal, Steven Malanga on the professional panhandling plague. David Warsh reviews A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies by William D. Nordhaus. In search of world justice: The burden of climate change solutions can only be equitably shared via an international court. Identity politics in climate change hell: Do you want to save the biosphere or boost your own brand of politics? (and more) An interview with Jane Mayer, author of The Dark Side. Sex and the Olympic city: Young men and women with the most fit, toned bodies in the world mingle for the last time — what might they get up to? What's up with black names, anyway? From Tayshaun to Rau'shee, Olympic athletes have been a reminder of distinctive African-American names.
