From MR Zine, a review of Murali Balaji's The Professor and the Pupil: The Politics and Friendship of W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson; and an interview with Osvaldo Martinez: "The crisis is not an abnormality in capitalism". A review of books on post-apartheid South Africa. Incognito: Evidence mounts that brains decide before their owners know about it. The Other War on Workers: Under the guise of "recession" pressure, some employers may be waging a secret war against their own workers. An interview with Ian Bremmer, author of The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing (and more). The Idiot's Guide to Pakistan: Everyone in Washington is talking about Pakistan, but few understand it — here’s how to dazzle the crowd at your next Georgetown cocktail party. A review of Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness by Mark S. Micale (and more). Songs can break more than your heart: Martin Cloonan on the sinister uses and abuses of music. Composed in Hypocrisy: Ilias Chrissochoidis on music, torture, and the drama of American musicology. Nicholas Carr on Technology’s Prophet: It’s Jean Baudrillard, not Marshall McLuhan. From Wired, total recall: An article on the woman who can't forget. Drugs, guns and dirt: Methamphetamine fuels a new epidemic of looting.
