The Ghost of George Kennan: A review of Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy Against Global Terror by Ian Shapiro and The End of Alliances by Rajan Menon. Scott McLemme reviews Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America by Cullen Murphy. (and more and more). A review of After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire by John Darwin (and more).
Jihad deja vu: A bloody 19th century revolt against the British looks terribly familiar. As a teenager Ed Husain was intoxicated with jihadism, and his highly acclaimed new book blames British Muslims for failing to tackle extremism, and a review of The Islamist. Daniel L. Byman on the rise of low-tech terrorism. No satisfactory resolution of the debate over the treatment of suspected terrorists is likely until a new administration takes over. A review of Military Justice in Vietnam: The Rule of Law in an American War. Navy veteran David Miller said that when he checked into the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Iowa City, he didn’t realize he would get a hard sell for Christian fundamentalism along with treatment for his kidney stones.
From Financial Times, women have long been able to borrow from the male wardrobe, and now old-fashioned femininity is slowly creeping into men’s wear collections. How the media skew gender research: Studies that appear to support traditional roles for women get picked up and popularized, while more nuanced research just can't seem to generate buzz. How the media perpetuate women's fears of being a bad mother: Contrary to what the media report, putting your child in day care will not make them grow up to be a criminal or Columbine-like killer.
From n+1, Replaceable You: Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous is adamantly against turning love into mysticism, or self-abnegation (and part 2). Feeling stressed? No sex leads to less sex, research shows. Too Much Information: Rebecca Traister on how blogs have ruined her dating life, and Nerve's new wiki lets you share your favorite pickup lines with a fine community of skeeves. Objectophilia, fetishism and neo-sexuality: Some people love their laptops more than anything else in the world. Others are sexually aroused by musical instruments or buildings. Experts are trying to understand a bizarre sexual obsession known as objectophilia. Virtual rape is traumatic, but is it a crime? And pushing sex offenders to the edges of society may sound like a good way to keep kids safe. But what if residency restriction laws have the opposite effect?
