From Monthly Review, an essay on Living the 11th Thesis. Research reveals that people who wear glasses are not stereotypical geeks or nerds. The new American nerd is a beast! Former four-eyed wieners are suddenly ripped, cut, pumped, absy, hairy and huge! The Islamic Republic of Harvard? The university's latest public relations disaster — and how it could have been avoided. More on Jeffrey Sachs' Common Wealth. From PopMatters, some Amazon buyers serve as "culture jammers", expressing their contempt for advertisers through simple acts of creative customer feedback. Cultural libertarians are a growing force in America, but just how do you reach them? A new issue of Girlistic Magazine is out. A review of Muqtada by Patrick Cockburn. An interview with Carl Oglesby, author of Ravens in the Storm: A Personal History of the 1960s Anti-War Movement. Some scientific findings may be no-brainers, but these studies uncover hidden truths in conventional wisdom. From Doublethink, people who like weird sex should protect it by making sure it never becomes normal; and adaptation, the process of turning source material—most often a novel—into a movie, has been around almost as long as the movies have — what does an adaptation owe to its source material? The introduction to Law as Culture: An Invitation by Lawrence Rosen.
