Jordan J. Paust (Houston): Permissible Self-Defense Targeting and the Death of Bin Laden. The weariness of men and nations: Jean Monnet wanted both supranational institutions and the nation state — his famous method could help tackle the current crisis. From The New York Observer, Sigmund says: Analysts expand their horizon by going beyond Father Freud; and Mr. and Mrs. Shrink: Therapists in relationships with other therapists are maddeningly healthy. Using debt to crush democracy: Michael Hudson on how financiers are waging warfare against nations. Handwriting, an elegy: As more and more of our words are tapped out on keyboards, Ann Wroe celebrates a dying art. The Canadian magazine Adbusters sparked the Occupy Wall Street movement — it also has a weakness for Israel-bashing conspiracy theories. Conservative Frank Luntz has set a trap for progressives — here's how to outsmart him and boost the Occupy Movement. The first chapter from Creating Wine: The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840-1914 by James Simpson. The fallacy of the open mike: David Rovics on the cultural one-percent. The politics of TV: What Democrats and Republicans watch. What kind of society, exactly, do modern Republicans want? Robert Reich on the rebirth of Social Darwinism. The fanatics of the center: Advocates of the evenhanded middle ignore the fact that compromising with Republicans only moves politics to the right.
