Saskia Sassen (Columbia): The Limits of Power and the Complexity of Powerlessness: The Case of Immigration. From The Atlantic Monthly, why Japan’s young consumers are turning away from luxury goods; and Michael Pettis is a finance pundit by day, a Beijing rock impresario by (very late) night. From Touchstone, Maclin Horton on Marilyn Monroe and Hugh Hefner, together at last; Eleanor Bourg Donlon on Hollywood’s disgrace and Jane Austen’s wisdom; Frederica Mathewes-Green on Bible lessons for the Disney Generation; John Granger on what he learned about the Great Books and Harry Potter; thirty-one years after its original publication, The Light and the Glory maintains a prominent place on the bookshelves of Evangelical Christians — but it must be read with caution; and an article on the remarkable 50-Year White House ministry of Billy Graham. From Tikkun, an article on the trouble with liberals — they are not who you think they are; and a review of How to Win a Fight with a Liberal and How to Win a Fight with a Conservative by Daniel Kurtzman. An interview with Peter J. Stanlis on the legacies of Edmund Burke and Robert Frost. Did China cause the crisis? In its present and worsening convulsions, the wild economic beast which we call the global market has a fearful symmetry. A review of Science in Civil Society by John Ziman.
