Jan Blommaert (Tilburg): The Rhetorical World of George W. Bush. From Digital Culture and Education, a special issue on harnessing digital technologies to challenge the dominant HIV and AIDS paradigm. A radical idea: What if we could make terrorism uncool? Cognac’s identity crisis: Wayne Curtis on how the liquor’s marketing success among both rappers and codgers has blinded consumers to its subtler pleasures. An interview with Peter Dreier, author of The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame. Why do conservatives hate public transit? In a word, because it’s public. Female beauty is often defined by the Western fashion elite in Milan or New York, but more and more German magazines are speaking out against it. The U.S. government is a sham, the Federal Reserve is running a secret bond market, global finance is controlled by an “upperworld” of rogue black-ops fixers, and other things that Sam Israel, the Ponzi schemer who cheated investors of $450 million and faked his own suicide, truly believed. A long love affair with magazines: Samir Husni, aka Mr. Magazine, sees a bright future for the objects of his affection.
