A new issue of Words Without Borders is out. From Transformations, a special issue on The Face and Technology. From Transcript, a special issue on Science Fiction and Political Fantasy. From the University of Chicago Magazine, thirty-four years ago, William H. McNeill shed new light on world history — by giving microbes their proper place in the human drama; and a review of Robert Pippin's Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy. A review of A Journey: My Political Life by Tony Blair (and more). Marc Ambinder has thoughts about political science and journalism. The Oxford Etymologist Anatoly Liberman asks, how old is the parasite “like”? From Telos, David Pan on Carl Schmitt and Barack Obama on political identity in a multi-polar world. Chris Lehmann reviews Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch by Eric Miller (and more). Heroes of the Hamptons: In some respects, it turns out, the rich aren't all that different. The great Pelagian conception — Christianity is an education: A review of Problemi di liberta by Hans Jonas. A review of The Presidential Pardon Power by Jeffrey Crouch. A review of Adam Smith: an Enlightened Life by Nicholas Phillipson (and more and more and more and more and more). Print is dead and now the Web is dead, too? Reading a story about the end of the Web in a print magazine is pretty amusing. From TED, David McCandless on the beauty of data visualization. From Wild River Review, a special series on the shift from an industrial to a planetary civilization (in 12 parts, with stops on catastrophes as the spur to institute tricameral legislatures, the Global War for Drugs, the United Nations and Sarah Palin). A review of Personal Responsibility: Why it Matters by Alexander Brown.
