From Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, Timothy A. Gibson (George Mason): Advertising Empire: Reflections on Defense Contractor Ads in Washington, D.C. Christopher Smith (Belmont): Consciousness and Futility: A Proposal for a Legal Redefinition of Death. M. Abu-Shomar Ayman (King Saud): The Apparatus of Ideology: A Post-Colonial Reading of English Literature; Considerations from “Institutional Literatures”. Dropping the Political F-Bomb: Nowadays, it seems, everyone's a fascist — here's a handy guide to identifying the real thing. Goldman Sachs completely obliterates Bitcoin in new report. Duncan Kelly reviews Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre by Jonathan Israel. The French Revolution is not over: The French historian Francois Furet died almost 20 years ago, but the fights over his legacy are as savage as ever. The “GOP lawmaker” principle: David Weigel on why you see so many articles about random Right-wing politicians. Today in culture war: Kevin D. Williamson wonders why people watch Jon Stewart when they could be reading The Road to Serfdom. Baby libertarian Republicans who care so much about the freedom to not pay taxes and carry a gun don't seem to have groked what the Republican Party really is. Media in the democratic state: Jathan Sadowski reviews The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties by Fred Turner.
