From HIOL: Hispanic Issues On Line, a special issue on debating Hispanic Studies. From Peacework, a special issue on El Salvador. The superpower that never was: There was no single event at which Argentina's path diverged permanently from that of the US, but a series of missteps fit a general pattern. An interview with Joshua Cooper Ramo, author of The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do About It (and more and more and more). It's possible to make a few observations about the factions forming on the intellectual right as it adjusts to life in the political wilderness. A review of Rowan Williams' Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction. Daphne Merkin reviews The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys by Lilian Pizzichini. A review of Marc Bousquet's How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation. Searching for Shangri-La: Two visions of the future compete for the soul of China’s western frontier. An interview with Jean Bethke Elshtain, author of Sovereignty: God, State, and Self. From TED, Nate Silver on picking apart the puzzle of racism in elections. From The Chronicle, we ill-serve students by having them study literature through the filter of a school of criticism — let outstanding writing, first and foremost, represent itself.
