A new issue of Metropolis is out. Alan K. Goodboy (Bloomsburg) and Maria Brann (WVU): Flirtation Rejection Strategies: Toward an Understanding of Communicative Disinterest in Flirting. From Platform, Panayiota Tsatsou (LSE): Reconceptualising "Time" and "Space" in the Era of Electronic Media and Communications; Aleksandra Bida (Ryerson): Cultural Deterritorialisation: Communications Technology, Provenance and Place; and Lauren Movius (USC): Cultural Globalisation and Challenges to Traditional Communication Theories. The Fatwa: Kenan Malik on Ayatollah Khomeini and the legacy of the Salman Rushdie affair. Corporations aren’t persons: We need to amend the Constitution to strike down the Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance. From Newsweek, a special report on The Beauty Advantage: The quest to look good isn't just a vain pursuit. From the Jewish Review of Books, a review of God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades by Rodney Stark and The Crusades, Christianity and Islam by Jonathan Riley-Smith. Islam’s political problem: A review of The Flights of the Intellectuals by Paul Berman and The Other Muslims: Moderate and Secular. Keith J. Bybee on his book All Judges Are Political — Except When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law. From Radical Philosophy, Claudia Aradau on the myth of preparedness. Short-Sighted: Why do some liberals refuse to admit Obama is a change agent?
