From Krisis, Albrecht Wellmer (FUB): Rereading Rorty; "the state is a limitation on human existence": An interview with Simon Critchley (and a review of Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance); Regina Kreide (Goethe): Power and Powerlessness of Human Rights: The International Discourse on Human Rights; Ernst van den Hemel (Amsterdam): Included but not Belonging: Badiou and Ranciere on Human Rights; a review of Lynn Hunt's Inventing Human Rights: A History; a review of Rainer Forst's Das Recht auf Rechtfertigung; and a review of Pheng Cheah's Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights. From The University Bookman, error has no rights: A review of Orestes Brownson: American Religious Weathervane by Patrick W. Carey; the witness revisited: An article on Whittaker Chambers and American conservatism; a review of Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America by Donald N. Levine; and a review of Dante: The Poet, The Political Thinker, The Man by Barbara Reynolds. A review of The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power by David Sanger (and an interview). Center stage for the twenty-first century: Robert Kaplan on power plays in the Indian Ocean. Are social networking sites really infantilising our teenagers?
