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The meaning of sunglasses

From Athena Intelligence, Julian Richards (Brunel): Terrorism in Europe: The Local Aspects of a Global Threat; and an essay on Future War: The War on Terror after Iraq. From 21st century Socialism, an article on the Soviet model and the economic cold war.  An interview with Andy Kirk, author of Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalogue and American Environmentalism.  A review of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan. An excerpt from Fear and Courage in the Democratic Party by Glenn Hurowitz. A review of Beyond the Law: The Bush Administration’s Unlawful Responses in the “War” on Terror by Jordan J. Paust. A review of books on the visual arts. I Am Obama: The American imagination and the New Black Hero. Noam Scheiber on Obama's surprisingly non-ideological policy shop. From Time, an article on how to make great teachers. An article on the many faces of populism. There is no quick cure for the epidemic of arrogant anti-intellectualism that has infected America: More and more on Susan Jacoby's The Age of American Unreason. A review of The Meaning of Sunglasses: A Guide to (Almost) All Things Fashionable by Hadley Freeman. Even if it has been abandoned to the one-panel punch of newspaper corners, the comic book has survived as an art form that portrays the itching wound of our civilization.