From The New York Review of Magazines, a look back at a decade in magazines; in honor of New York’s superlative Approval Matrix, NYRM borrows the format to highlight the best and worst of the past year in magazines; here are some highlights — both low- and high-tech — from the last 50 years in the print magazine world and tweet-sized picks of the best magazine-related Twitter feeds; for every expert writing an epitaph for print magazines, there is another promising clearer skies ahead; and what is your dream magazine? Editors envision an epic-ultra-super publication. A review of Sebastian Junger’s War (and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more). Euro remains on the right side of history: The advent of the euro is just an episode — a most significant one — in the building of a post-Westphalian order. Metric Mania: Do we expect too much from our data? George Scialabba reviews Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt (and more and more). From New Humanist, to be truly happy we must be pessimistic, says Roger Scruton; and Jonathan Ree on History and the Enlightement by Hugh Trevor-Roper. The first chapter from Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice by Amy R. Poteete, Marco A. Janssen and Elinor Ostrom. An article on Norman Stone, poster boy for booze, fags and mischief. Polly Rosenwaike reviews It’s Beginning to Hurt by James Lasdun. For crime, is anatomy destiny? The GOP rushed to brand the Gulf Coast disaster "Obama's Katrina", but new reports make clear the Bush administration's lax attitude toward regulation deserves much of the blame. An article on Max Weber as modern-day globalization guru.
