A new issue of Catalyst is out. From Telos, Michael Marder (Toronto): In the Name of the Law: Schmitt and the Metonymic Abuses of Legitimacy; David Pan (UC-Irvine): World Order and the Decline of U.S. Power: Hard or Soft Landing?; and an essay on political divisions and the financial crisis. From The Atlantic Monthly, presiding over the debate, gently — too gently? — prodding the communion toward acceptance of gay clergy, is Rowan Williams, the brilliant and beleaguered archbishop of Canterbury (and an interview). Beyond anarchy at PM Press: Twenty-five years after launching AK Press, Ramsey Kanaan took his democracy elsewhere. A review of The Political Thought of Jacques Ranciere: Creating Equality by Todd May. A review of God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get it by Jim Wallis. Does Jacob Heilbrunn, the author of They Knew They Were Right, really think he has done nothing wrong? A review of Jonathan Gottschall's Literature, Science and a New Humanities. A review of The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising by Kenneth Roman (and more). From World Affairs, Mitchell Cohen on Moral Burdens: Iraq and the Ghosts of 1956; and Alan Wolfe on the demise of a species, liberal hawks. An interview with Adam Gopnik, author of Angels and Ages (and more).
