From Comparative Literature and Culture, a special issue on literacy and society, culture, media, and education. Peter S. Menell (UC-Berkeley): This American Copyright Life: Reflections on Re-Equilibrating Copyright for the Internet Age. The introduction to Enigmas of Identity by Peter Brooks. Willing the impossible: An interview with Judith Butler, author of Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism. Greenland opens the door to uranium and rare earths extraction. From the New York Times Book Review, a special issue on books on technology. Steve Fuller on how Right and Left are fading away — the real question in politics will be: do you look to the earth or aspire to the skies? Please stop comparing health insurance to car insurance. You can't learn about morality from brain scans: Thomas Nagel on the problem with moral psychology. Why is it always a white guy: Michael Kimmel on the roots of modern, violent rage. Are things actually looking up in the Middle East? Patrick Smith wonders. Goodbye to romance: What comes after a dream writing job? Destroying the right to be left alone: Christopher Calabrese and Matthew Harwood on how the NSA isn’t the only government agency exploiting technology to make privacy obsolete. From Slate, an investigation of all things cool. The first book in the subfield of Hello Kitty studies, Pink Globalization explores Kitty’s kawaiipolitik. Long forgotten, J. Redding Ware was a philologist of slang and detective-fiction pioneer — Scott McLemee looks into Ware Studies.
