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[Mar 17] From Saudi Arabia, five
reformist intellectuals are arrested. From Spain, new PM says he
will loosen ties with the US. From Brazil, on Cardoso's
legacy: Radical democracy. From Australia, why changes
to private education and health care are more about social rank than
choice. From the Philippines, on marshlands,
mercury, and digging our own graves. From Ireland, on religion
and politics: separate or inseparable? (and a look at atheistocracy).
From Tanzania, on Dodoma
as the elusive capital (and what drives a country to switch
its capital city?) Coining a new slogan for Spain: Thinking
locally, acting in Europe. An article on Taiwan's
challenge to China and the world (and part
2), and former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt on China:
Proud and patient. More on the Sierra
Club's divisions on immigration. Point, click, elect: Should
voting be that easy? The US steps
toward a targeted military draft, and a report says the government
faked news reports. And on finding
the good in Americans [Mar 16] From Spain, more on the PSOE electoral win (and some European reactions). From Sri Lanka, on Tamil nationalism at its crossroads. From Russia, on tolerance as a cornerstone of national ideology. From Malaysia, on distinguishing philosophers from realists. From Mexico, former president Miguel de la Madrid comes clean about the election in 1988. From Slovenia, on not knowing what glad rags to don for the EU accession. "Something is extremely wrong in this Arab world. You cannot turn a donkey into a horse." Why is it that so many black women are troubled by interracial relationships? On the descent of marriage: Do same sex unions undermine marriage? We can only hope so. Why the Pill made same-sex nuptials inevitable. On sex and the brain, researchers say 'Vive la Différence!' A review of Love Sick: Love as a Mental Illness. And has pornography now acquired a veneer of respectability? [Mar 15] From Spain, PSOE upsets PP in parliamentary vote, making Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero the new PM. From Russia, Putin cruises through elections--not that many people were inspired to vote. From Iran, a profile of Abdolkarim Soroush, a leading reformist intellectual. From Trinidad & Tobago, on Sir Arthur Lewis and the Westminster Inheritance. From South Africa, a look back at the first ten years of ANC rule. From Belarus, who is to blame for political stagnation? US revealed to be secretly funding opponents of Chavez, and a report says it is unloading WMD in Iraq--while it muffles the sweeping call to democracy in the Middle East. An interview with Mel Gibson's dad, and a partial transcript pdf. Kerry calls for monthly debates with Bush--perhaps to further his Complexity of Information Processing. A study finds a nation of polarized readers. Something's happening here, what it is, ain't exactly clear: the Culture Wars are back--and both parties are loving it. Why do women live so long? An evolutionary perspective. On forgiving a husband addicted to child pornography. Can a male contraceptive be popular? And dads worry about their daughters' sex lives: It's time they learnt the facts of life [Weekend 2e] From Spain, a videotape emerges, police arrest five Muslims as crowds accuse Aznar of cover-up, and on how the bombings will affect the upcoming election. From Thailand, bold PM faces growing criticism. From Zimbabwe, on avoiding secret political deals. From Great Britain, on Hume's big toe threat. Denmark's Environmental Assessment Institute and The Economist ask a very awkward question: What should come first in policy making? From Campaigns & Elections, how presidential primary losers can have sway at party conventions, and how the parties make sure their most loyal supporters vote on election day. Why the vitriolic character of American elections is a sign of agreement on the fundamentals of politics. A review of Press Gang: how newspapers make profits from propaganda. David Broader profiles Rep. Barney Frank, one bold thinker among the Democrats. Why tolerance has never come naturally. Has political correctness gone too far? A debate, woman to woman. And here are some anti-PC Irish jokes [Weekend] From South Korea, more on President Roh's impeachment. From Zimbabwe, mercenaries allegedly hired to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea will be prosecuted. From Egypt, President Mubarak says Arab reform should start within. From Lebanon, on the enduring dilemma of the Arab intelligentsia. From Canada, Liberals may be learning how the West is lost to conservatives. From South Africa, on nature, science and indigenous knowledge systems. From Singapore, a look at when public policy and private life clash. On Portugal, a Brazil colony. Barbara Crossette on putting the UN Economic and Social Council back in the loop. Why it is still not too late to prevent an environmental doomsday. Why it's wise for Bush to go down and dirty. On John McCain as John Kerry's vice president: Really? How regime change looms as the next great wave of American politics. From The Atlantic Monthly, Jeffrey Rosen says that a quest for popular approval is what drives John Ashcroft's public life, an interview with Douglas Brinkley on John Kerry, and a look back at what makes an American. And from The Week, a briefing on the National Guard [Mar 12] From Spain, train bombings kill up to 200 people in the name of Al-Qaeda, not the country's own ETA, and a look at Jose Maria Aznar's legacy [Check out Iberian Notes for updates on attacks]. From South Korea, President Roh is impeached. From Israel, the vast majority of citizens want to join 'antisemitic' EU, and on the slow death of the kibbutzim. From Malaysia, on the formidable force of women. From the Philippines, an interview on the political economy of information. From the Vatican, a survey says atheism is fading, but so is religious fervor. From Australia, why sex is not a morality-free zone. An article on elections and democracy. How Bush and Kerry divide over most issues. David Aaronovitch travels the USA and finds a nation divided. Todd Gitlin on Kerryslandering. More on the planned liberal radio station. An interview with Joe Trippi on the internet and political campaigns. How the iPod could help regain your personal space. Tyler Cowen on the new world of blogs. And Wham! Bam! Take that, spam! [Mar 11] From Haiti, an economist is appointed new PM. From Equatorial Guinea, leaders of an attempted coup are arrested. From France, 2,000 scientists resign in protest after rejection of their demands for more money. From Iraq, intellectuals are skeptical about the future. From Canada, there was a time when universities taught neither economics nor political science, but political economy. From Jamaica, on globalization and gender power. From Venezuela, on the oil company and social worker. From India, on Vedantic philosophy and Western science. From Botswana, a culture under threat--a report on the San Bushmen (and part 2). As elections in Austria show, far-right politics is alive and well in Europe. The Council of Foreign Relations recommends the US to stay in Iraq (and more). From American Heritage, part 1 of the 50 biggest changes in the last 50 years. Take a quiz: How European are you? Can a mere cartoon strip change the world? Garry Trudeau may well find out. And move over, MoveOn.org: new competition is coming [Mar 10] From Europe, why the real arrogance is keeping decisions from voters. From Greece, the New Democracy Party wins the elections. From Singapore, several MPs want pressure put on married couples who don't want babies. From Great Britain, judges meddle in politics at their own peril. Democracy Now! interviews Jean-Bertrand Aristide. An excerpt from Hans Blix's Disarming Iraq (and more). As Europe broadens, is Spain dividing? From Red Pepper, Rhineland capitalism at a crossroads (and more). Can extremist groups be good for budding democracies: A review of Uncivil Society? Contentious Politics in Post-Communist Europe. The RNC tells TV stations not to run anti-Bush ads by moveon.org. The Online Journalism Review takes a look at the future of news. Find out how socially responsible you are with a questionnaire. A 42-year-old Brownie troop leader: "Our breasts are not criminal." And "El Chavo del Ocho" keeps going and going and going
[Mar 9] From Iraq, a provisional
constitution is signed (and a critique).
From Kenya, on bottlenecks in the constitutional
review process. From Great Britain, a Q&A on the constitutional
reform bill. From China, their attitude
about rights may be changing, but perhaps not
their opposition to democracy. From Japan, opposition party suffers
a new scandal blow. Even is science
is not everything, can psychics, astrologers and mediums really
tell the future? Why Occam’s Razor is a useful
concept but not necessarily right in every case. On developing family
policies without much knowledge. From Zenit, on Catholicism's
view of sexuality, on Redemptor Hominis as John
Paul II's Manifesto, and on re-examining theologian Karl
Rahner's legacy. A review
of Karen Armstrong's The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness.
The metrosexual is out, so enter
the technosexual. Yahoo! pursues invisible
web content for its search engine. And a warning: Blogs
can be infectious |
[Mar 17] A new issue
of The Atlantic Monthly is out, including a review
of Burke's Reflections by Christopher Hitchens, a profile of Ralph
Reed, Jonathan Rauch on how
the Founding Fathers would have handled gay marriage, a review
of The Pig Who Sang To The Moon: The Emotional World Of Farm Animals,
and an article on duplicity
in foreign affairs. Why calling Spain an appeaser is a gross
oversimplification of the facts. The Roving Eye on the emergence
of hyperterrorism. A talk with John
Podhoretz on his new book, Bush Country. From TCS,
articles on bumper
sticker moralities and the purpose
of pain, and a response
to Slavoj Zizek's "Iraq's False Promises." A review
of Thomas Sowell's Applied Economics. More
on Perfectly Legal. A review
of Wealth, Poverty, and Human Destiny. More
and more
on Samuel Huntington. Aristide's tale is the stuff
of bad Hollywood fiction--can it be true? (and more)
And a year after the Iraq War: a Pew Survey finds mistrust
of America in Europe ever higher and Muslim anger persists
[Mar 16] From Time Europe, we
are all Spaniards. From Salon, two more
excerpts
from House of Bush, House of Saud, and how the bombings will
transform politics in Spain
and throughout Europe.
Articles on Marxist,
liberal, libertarian,
and conservative
perspectives on the lessons from Spain (and for Tony
Blair). Two more views from Christopher
Hitchens and Paul
Krugman. But we should all admit it: We
are all in the dark. Helmut Schmidt, Germany's former Chancellor, on
Europe
and the Clash of Civilizations. More on Samuel
Huntington and the Hispanic Challenge. Buzzflash interviews
Eric Alterman. More
on Tim Robbins' Embedded. From Financial Times, an
editorial on how
not to pick the IMF's chief. Why true economic understanding, which
includes second order effects, may not lie entirely on the free
trade side. Robert Schiller on saving
a world that doesn't save. And, by the way, Aristide
is back in the Caribbean |
[Mar 17] Belinda Barnet (SUT): Technical
Machines and Evolution. A review
of Habermas and Pragmatism. A review
of A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the US
Constitution and the Making of the American State, a review
of To Form a More Perfect Union: A New Economic Interpretation of the
United States Constitution, and a review
of Principles of International Environment Law. A look at Loïc
Wacquant's work on prisons. A move to fire
two tenured professors roils the University of Southern Mississippi. From The
Scientist, on the impossible dream of eliminating
the Nobel Prize. Astronomers announce the discovery of the most
distant object ever detected in the solar system, a planet
called Sedna--how do planets
get their names anyway? A review
of The Earth: An Intimate History (and more
and more).
How biologists are digging
for the roots of language. How can a poll of only
1,004 Americans represent 260 million people? And why understanding
recent terror
tactics is a challenge for academics--but so is public complacency [Mar 16] Richard Falk (Princeton): Trends Towards Transnational Justice: Innovations and Institutions pdf. Jeff McMahan (Rutgers): Unjust War pdf. Here's a dissertation prospectus titled The Speculum and the Scalpel: The Politics of Impotent Representation and Non - Representational Terrorism, and the text pdf. Why rock-star academics are made, not born--by literary agents. A review of books on cultural icons and alternative religions. A critique of U. of Texas' Brian Leiter and his defense of Darwinism, and form Scientific American, here are 15 answers to creationist nonsense. An essay on why skeptics dread conversations with true believers. From TPM, Do-It-Yourself Deity: Test the plausibility of different conceptions of God. From The New Yorker, Transcendental Meditation reaches NYC high schools. Why do we fall for the fallacy of the complex question so easily? And check out Piled Higher and Deeper: A Grad Student Comic Strip [Mar 15] Cass Sunstein (Chicago): Valuing Rights doc. Fran Collyer (Sydney): Theorising Privatisation: Policy, Network Analysis, and Class. A new issue of the Post-Autistic Economics Review is out. An essay on free exchange and ethical decisions pdf. From Brown, on examining the nation's debt to the slave trade. From Yale, scientists and theologians bring their beliefs to the same table. Harvard professor Yoshi Tsurumi recalls Bush the Right-Winger. Fewer professors spend a full day on campus, and yet all they do is complain, complain. From IQ to no clue: What does Stephen Hawking think about the most? "Women." More and more and more on Opening Skinner's Box, and "Stop this rubbish about me and my dad," says Deborah Skinner Buzan. From The Nation, Eric Foner reviews Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876, by William H. Rehnquist. On the opportunities to write the history of the world in the 21st century, and what should we teach our kids about world history? Terry Jones, former Python, converts from being a clown into a historian of the 14th century. Why many students come away from philosophy 101 courses hating Socrates. And a showdown at the Socrates Cafe [Weekend 2e] Hans Joas (Erfurt): The Modernity of War: The Dream of a Modernity Without Violence rtf. An essay on Social Justice: An Islamic Perspective. Why the President's Council on Bioethics report, Being Human, may be the most unusual document ever produced by any government panel. What can social science add to the gay marriage debate? Not much so far. In this economic recovery, a college education backfires. Why academics understand that the future lasts a long, long time. The New York Times Book Review names Sam Tanenhaus as its new editor. On books and the box: Should serious authors be plugged on daytime TV? How the role of books is more vital than ever in the modern world. On the pitfalls of choosing a subject for a book. More and more on The Oxford English Literary History, Vol 12: 1960-2000. A purple patch on reading old books. Cornell's Michael Kammen on summer, fall, winter, and spring in American Culture. And from Portland State, on Britney Spears as a poster girl for postmodern philosophy [Weekend] From International Social Science Review, Carol Bargeron (STSU): The Middle East: some new realities and old problems; and Maria Joao Cardoso de Pina Cabral (ISCA-Coimbra): John von Neumann's contribution to economic science. Two more articles on anarchism and post-leftism: Seeing Past the Outpost of Post-Anarchism. Anarchy: Axiomatic, and Worthwhile Debate Requires Communication: Evasion and Denial Don't Cut It. A review of Justice at War: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights During Times of Crisis, a review of No Price Too High: Victimless Crimes and the Ninth Amendment, and a review of The Constitution and the Nation. More on Helen Fisher's Why We Love. More on Susan Okin. From Popular Science, on a journey to the 10th dimension. Ronald Bailey on Michael Sandel and the moral vertigo of biotechnology. A review of The Prism and the Pendulum. More on Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity. On emotional striptease, and other paths to ethics. From The Economist, a quick look at noteworthy articles from business journals. And David Horowitz claims his first victim, at Indiana [Mar 12] A review of Flourishing: Letters 1928-1946, by Isaiah Berlin. A review of The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding, and a review of (Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein. Columbia's Rodolfo O. de la Garza critiques the research behind Huntington's Who We Are, and "hey, professor, assimilate this!" How the Greatest Generation struggled with history, too. On teaching Socrates a lesson in living philosophy. An article on why atheism does not equal intolerance. From Harvard, how former mayor Antanas Mockus turned Bogota into a social experiment. From Stanford, why are those Brazilians so hot? Here is Scott McLemee's acceptance speech for his National Book Critics Circle award. An article on books that changed the world. A review of Trees, Woodland and Western Civilization, and more on William Vollmann's Rising Up, Rising Down. A review of the Oxford English Literary History vol. 12, 1960 - 2000. A review of A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World. And why does Robyn Licht's textbook say sex is harmful? [Mar 11] Iver Hornemann Mølle (CBS): Understanding integration and differentiation - inclusion, marginalisation and exclusion. A lecture by Jan Patocka on personal spatiality, Husserl, and Heidegger. An essay on The Animal Other: Civility and Animality in and Beyond Heidegger, Levinas, and Derrida. A look at the life and work of economist Richard Musgrave, architect of the public household. An excerpt from The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality. Is a pre-Columbus map of North America truly a hoax? A review of Conquerors of Time. On the potential of brain pacemakers. Do we really use only 10 percent of our brain? With so many artistic geniuses among us, why is most of their work so disposable? A review of Revolution! The Explosion of World Cinema in the 60s. From Princeton, National Review looks at the screening of and debate around The Passion. From UC-Davis, men and women are from the same planet after all. And from Stanford, econ majors beware--your kind are stingy, self-centered pigs [Mar 10] Obituary: Susan Moller Okin. A new issue of The Global Review of Ethnopolitics is out, including an article on Globalization and Ethnic Conflict: Beyond the Liberal - Nationalist Distinction pdf. From Culture Wars, a review of Tzvetan Todorov's Imperfect Garden: The Legacy of Humanism, a review of The Modernization Imperative, and a review of Democracy, Fascism and the New World Order. An essay on China and the bonfire of the burgeois vanities. Kent's Frank Furedi on the politics of the lonely crowd. A study finds teenage virginity pledges are rarely kept, and STD rates are similar among them. A look at the Ralph Naders of psychology. A scientist says odds are God exists. An Ohio school board approves a lesson plan that questions evolution. On a new kind of hominid species, Ardipithecus kadabba. A review of Defining Difference: Race and Racism in the History of Psychology, and a review of Between Emotion and Cognition. And more and more and more on Paul Sweezy [Mar 9] Robert Goodin (ANU): Democratic accountability: the third sector and all. A new issue of Essays in Philosophy is out, including a a review of Aristotle and Modern Politics: The Persistence of Political Philosophy, a review of Habermas and Pragmatism, and a review of French Theory in America. From Cross Currents, essays on Richard Rorty’s secular eschatology, and on pedagogy, religion, and the future of philosophy. Scientists believe that dark energy may shed light on how the cosmos will end. From Princeton, on Robert Jahn's work on consciousness and physical reality, and philosophy professor Scott Soames leaves for USC. From Alabama, Professor Utz McKnight brings ancient political theory to life. From Lethbridge, an article on imperialism, conquest, indigenous peoples, aboriginal title, treaties, and international law. An interview with Brown's Paul Buhle. UCLA's Michael Mann on an imperial catastrophe. And why campus conservatives have been forced to find creative ways to air their views [Mar 8] A new issue of Logos is out, including articles by Stephen Eric Bronner and Judith Butler, and a debate between Benny Morris and Baruch Kimmerling on ethnic cleansing. Steven Schwarcz (Duke): 'Idiot's Guide' to Sovereign Debt Restructuring. Kayhan Parsi (Loyola) and Karen Geraghty (Chicago): The Bioethicist as Public Intellectual. Melding of nano, bio, info and cogno opens new legal horizons. How pioneers are exploring the neurology of religious experience. From UCLA, on the rise of profound new doubts about the salience of democracy from a number of serious sources. Robert Barro and Rachel McCleary are unafraid to ask the big questions ("Does God hate the Red Sox?"). How Patrick Henry College is shaping home - schooled leaders for the Right. From Berkeley, George Soros speaks on American democracy. From Namibia, why a study of the philosophy of education seems imperative today. American U. sociologist Gao Zhan sentenced to prison for exporting electronic equipment to China. "Integralist" Ken Wilber on what unites the world's great wisdom traditions. And on the 1478 assassination attempts of Lorenzo de' Medici and his brother: The humanists did it [Weekend 2e] From Eurozine, Francis Snyder (CERIC): Modelling the EU Constitution; Dario Melossi (Bologna): Security, migration and "social control" in the context of the "constitution" of the EU; and Mauricio Garcia Villegas (U. Nacional - Colombia): Law as Hope: Constitutions, courts and social change in Latin America. From Federalism-e, an essay on European integration and its implications on the decline of state sovereignty pdf. An essay on the Internationalization of Constitutional Law. A review of Public Law in a Multi-Layered Constitution, and a review of Family Law in the Twentieth Century: A History. Academics fight back to defend 'bad' writing: A review of Just Being Difficult? Academic Writing in the Public Arena. Is there a sequel for the endangered bookstore? On the Lewis and Clark expedition as an intellectual enterprise. Ian Buruma on the French love affair with China. A review of Mark Lilla's The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics. A review of Thomas Pangle's Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham. And more on Soul Made Flesh |
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