Frida Berrigan on America’s global weapons monopoly: Don’t call it “the Global Arms Trade”. Reality is broken and can only be fixed if we make the real world work like massive, multiplayer games. Peter Singer on Haiti and the rules of generosity. The Spy and the Silk Baron: David Mekelburg on the liberation of losing one’s identity in Asia. A review of The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman by Peter Rost. Bush's teen pregnancy bump: Did George W. Bush's focus on abstinence-only programs cause a rise in teen pregnancy rates? A review of Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals by Christopher Payne. The introduction to Critical Terms for Media Studies. On the predictable American response to translated literature: A review of Best European Fiction 2010 (and more and more and more and more and more). The Godfather paradox: From Sicily to the boardrooms of modern-day corporations, some insights into the mind of a socially enabled psychopath. Why — despite projections of huge American deficits — the debt of the United States remains the gold standard of creditworthiness by which all nations are compared. A review of The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement by Jean Twenge and W. Keith Campbell. Tznius 2.0: As preteen pop stars play sexy, it’s time to rethink modesty. From New Left Project, an interview with Robin Hahnel, author of Economic Justice and Democracy; and an interview with Michael Albert on complementary holism and Participatory Economics. The Rise of the Ironic Class: What still matters to a generation for whom nothing matters? The voice answering the phone at one California convent responded to the invitation of a lifetime with some perplexity: “Who’s Oprah?”
Acclaimed authors Mary Gaitskill, Hari Kunzru, and Ed Park appear in a reading presented by Bookforum @ Housing Works' Bookstore Cafe, 126 Crosby Street, New York, NY 10012, this Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 7:00 PM.
