From Lost, escape from America: Christopher Buckingham as "The Real Jackal"; articles on gravestones and clotheslines; and dispatches from the Women's Army Corps. The financial crisis has created an industrial crisis — what should governments do about it? Foreign Policy's survey of international relations professors reveals they’re worried about climate change, Russia’s rise, and their own irrelevance. A review of Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line by Martha A Sandweiss. While most university press books don't have much commercial appeal, they are finding that they can still be the targets of pirates. The local news is seldom good, but Johannesburg is still a place that can capture your heart. A review of Free Expression and Democracy in America: A History by Stephen M. Feldman. From New Statesman, David Hillstrom gives his take on faith, science and philosophy. From L'Homme, feminism, biography and cheshire cat stories: A geopolitical journey through a biographical dictionary. Cop for a day: To help fund expensive crime-fighting tools, New York's finest allow paying members of the public to take command. Blame it on Keynes: Everyone's got a view of the theory, but what about the man? (or blame it on the Keynesians?). Russell Jacoby reviews BHL's Left in Dark Times. From Dissent, Michael Katz on the death of "Shorty".
