From Aspeers, Jutta Schulze (Buenos Aires): A “Truth Like This”: Language and the Construction of Power and Knowledge in Vampire Fiction; and Martin Domke (Berlin): Into the Vertical: Basketball, Urbanization, and African American Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century America. Meet the original JWoww and Snooki, would-be stars of Bridge & Tunnel. More and more on 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann. The the national security state is the biggest threat to American liberty, but the tea party is blind to the danger — and so's the Obama left. The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux: Noam Chomsky on using privilege to challenge the state. Peter Singer on the troubled life of Nim Chimpsky. The NYT paywall is out of the gate fast: 281,000 paying digital subscribers in three months show readers will pay for quality news. A review of 100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith by Sonia Arrison (and more). The other health care revolutions: The Affordable Care Act may have gotten all the attention, but American medicine will be transformed even more profoundly by forces that neither the government, insurance companies, nor even doctors themselves can fully tame. A review of Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times by Megan Boler. Footballer Joey Barton is a convicted criminal who's reinvented himself on Twitter, but do his tweets reveal him as a budding philosopher? (and more) With Hugues Lagrange’s book on “the denial of cultures”, culture has again become the focus of poverty studies. One case where market forces actually work: An interview with Roy Baumeister, author of Sexual Economics: A Research-Based Theory of Sexual Interactions, or Why the Man Buys Dinner.
