Nancy Fraser (New School): Feminism, Capitalism, and the Cunning of History. How your Twitter account could land you in jail: Anything you tweet could be used against you. A review of Rebecca Solnit's A Paradise Built in Hell. Haiti's Excluded: How the earthquake aid regime sidelines those it intends to help. From NDPR, a review of Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction by Catherine Malabou; and a review of Radical Indecision: Barthes, Blanchot, Derrida, and the Future of Criticism by Leslie Hill. From The Root, a list of people black history could do without — which got John McWhorter thinking about who he would include on a top-ten list of that kind. Jeff Jarvis on why our educational system is total bullshit. The Business Roundtable, an organization representing Fortune 500 CEOs, is at the heart of the Economic Elite's power center. From NYRB, Ian Buruma on Himmler’s favorite Jew. Ian Chillag uses all of WGN's newly banned words in one sentence. An article on Alice in Wonderland's secret ingredient: Math. A review of Country Driving: A Journey Through China From Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler (and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more). Sexporting an image of American women: Did MTV pave the way for Amanda Knox's guilty verdict? Dressed for Success: Business casual and the evolution of the American workplace. The psychology of the taboo trade-off: Surprising insights into sacred values, and what they mean for negotiation. A review of Ill Fares the Land: A Treatise on Our Present Discontents by Tony Judt (and more). From LRB, a review of The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years by Clive James. Are gruesome scenes in books for young people OK if they have a mythological pedigree?
