The latest issue of Salisbury Review is free online. The inescapability of the Gospel: Mark P. Shea on Annalee Newitz and the insufficiently lefty liberal power fantasy that energizes stories like Avatar. Whether it’s the Mayan prediction of the 2012 cataclysm or the theology of the rapture, predictions of the end of the world tell us as much about ourselves as about the coming apocalypse. Denis Dutton on how it’s always the end of the world as we know it. Scott McLemee reviews The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue. From Newsweek, a special section on Issues 2010, including Francis Fukuyama on why history is still over; David Frum on why America still needs the neocons; and John Horgan on how the world may be entering a new age of peace. Gene Weingarten has advice on the art of angry e-mail writing: use RaNDOm CAPITaliZATion and as many exclamation points as possible!!!!!!!!! The Day the Journal Died: GQ interviewed dozens of people — including reporters, Bancroft family members, and executives — to recreate NewsCorp's acquisition of one of the last great newspapers. From Slate, it's like Slate for terrorists: What's in al-Qaida's Web magazine, and why do so many terrorists have engineering degrees? Stanley Crouch on Bette Davis, the greatest white bitch of all (and a response). The Boomers broke it, trading the early revolutionary impulses for a status quo of greed, selfishness and temper tantrums — can Gen X-ers fix it? Large, international corporations are doing away with cubicles; how will the shift affect workers and the quality of their work?
