A new issue of NBER Digest is out. From Unbound, Slavoj Zizek (Ljubljana): Legal Luck; Mladen Dolar (Ljubljana): Freud and the Political; Maria Rosaria Marella (Perugia): Radicalism, Resistance, and the Structures of Family Law; Kambiz Behi (Columbia): The “Real” in Resistance: Transgression of Law as Ethical Act; Irene Gendzier (BU): Does Knowing Matter? U.S. Congressional Records and the Arming of Iraq; and Hamid Dabashi (Columbia): The American Empire: Triumph of Triumphalism. From Touchstone, a review of Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America by Matthew Avery Sutton; a review of What’s So Great About Christianity by Dinesh D’Souza; and a review of God's Continent: Christianity, Islam and Europe's Religious Crisis by Philip Jenkins. A review of books on Pope Benedict XVI. An interview with Andrew Nikiforuk, author of Pandemonium: Bird Flu, Mad Cow Disease, and Other Biological Plagues of the 21st Century. A review of Ryan Seacrest Is Famous by Dave Housley. A review of Bernard-Henri Levy's Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism. A review of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben and Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger (and a response).
