From the latest issue of Logos, a special section on Gaza, Dick Howard (Stony Brook): Obama's Challenges: How to Govern the U.S.; Paola Cavalieri on The Ruses of Reason Strategies of Exclusion; Paul Hockenos on Germany Year 1968: Democratic Turning Point or Annus Terriblis?; experiments in anti-systemic lifestyles: A review essay on Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon's Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100 Mile Diet, Sara Bongiorni's A Year Without "Made in China": Our Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy, and Colin Beavan's No Impact Man; a review of Graham Greene: A Life in Letters (and more); and a review of Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality by Stuart Ewen and Elizabeth Ewen. From The Atlantic, a special section on The First 100 Days of Barack Obama (and more and more at TAP; and more; and just imagine what would have been: The First 100 Days of John McCain). From The New York Times, a profile of Tim Geithner, member and overseer of finance club. From The National Interest, Barry Eichengreen on The Last Temptation of Risk. From Scientific American, could food shortages bring down civilization? Lester Brown is on the case (and an excerpt). Here's some political science research on party switching.
