From the inaugural issue of Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, D.N. Rodowick (Harvard): A Care for the Claims of Theory; Murray Smith (Kent): Film Theory Meets Analytic Philosophy; Or, Film Studies and L'Affair Sokal; and Raymond Bellour (Paris 3): Deleuze: The Thinking of the Brain. From Open Democracy, Maciej Bartkowski and Lester R. Kurtz on how to negotiate the transition in Egypt: Lessons from Poland and China. From NYRB, is health care reform unconstitutional? David Cole investigates. From New York, a special issue on The Greatest New York Ever. What we talk about when we talk about the deficit: How Washington avoids having an "adult conversation" about the federal budget (and more). Between Cairo and Davos: The new age of insurgencies of which Egypt is an emblem has its deeper source not in the anger of the marginalised but in the system operated by the world's financial elites. Does Egypt prove Bush right? No, his "freedom agenda" failed long before he left office. A review of The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death by John Gray. Did Twitter make them do it? The battle over social-media revolutions. Gabriel Arana on how the fight over DADT was always about the normalization of homosexuality. A tale of two ports: Gwadar and Chabahar display Chinese-Indian rivalry in the Arabian Sea. Interview with a Philosopher: A way to have deep conversations online — no, really.
