A new issue of Lobster is out. A review of Known and Unknown by Donald Rumsfeld (and more and more and more and more and more). Human Behaviour: Method acting, a once-radical invention, has lost touch with who we’ve become. Walter Block on his book The Case for Discrimination. Whistling past the graveyard: Can the lost art of whistling make a comeback? Becky Ferreira on humanity's endless quest to invent a death ray — a history. A senator in Belgium has proposed a sex strike as a way of ending the country's lengthy negotiations around forming a new government — do sex strikes ever work? A review of The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue. How is it possible that a person living in a water-rich region uses more water by flushing the toilet than a person in a water-scarce region has available for drinking, food-preparation, hygiene, and cleaning — for a whole day? CNN profiles Malcolm Gladwell, the man who can explain everything. The Unholy Pleasure: Mark Oppenheimer on his life-long recovery from snobbery. J.M. Bernstein, Lydia Goehr, Gregg Horowitz, and Chris Cutrone debate the relevance of critical theory to art today. Doodlong drooling macrophages: Drawing ludicrous cartoons to memorize scores of gory scientific details has always been an incredible pastime. Apocalyptic obsessions and public nudity: The world of the early Quakers. Do blind people see race? Osagie K. Obasogie on social, legal, and theoretical considerations.
