A new issue of Public Diplomacy is out. An interview with Denis Antoine, author of Effective Diplomacy. From University World News, a profile of Manuel Castells, theorist of power (and more and more). How the sleazy used-car salesmen at Goldman Sachs tricked investors into buying their busted clunkers. Do book editors deserve a cut of the profits? Publish or Perish: Can the iPad topple the Kindle, and save the book business? Dana Rohrabacher's War: In the '80s he took up arms with Afghanistan's mujahideen; now the California Republican is fighting against Obama's surge. A Space Oddity: How an Afghan pilot became a cosmonaut — and a fugitive. David Haglund reviews Everything Matters! by Ron Currie Jr. The Last Yugoslav: A review of Terror and Joy: The Films of Dusan Makavejev by Lorraine Mortimer. Are newspaper critics old hat amid the flood of online critics? Four and twenty: Here are excerpts from Marijuana Magazine’s special issues. The introduction to What's Eating You? People and Parasites by Eugene Kaplan. Channelling Ike: Richard Rayner on Stephen Ambrose’s imagined encounters with Eisenhower. Beauty and the Beast: Not everyone is drop-dead gorgeous, but everyone is intent on pointing that out. A review of The Age of Persuasion: How Marketing Ate Our Culture by Terry O’Reilly and Mike Tennant. The growing belief that the Internet has led to an increasingly fragmented and polarized media market may be contradicted by new research. Tweet Tweet Boom Boom: A growing community of young, sunny social-media entrepreneurs are inventing ways to amplify the urban experience with technology; in the process, they may be finally turning NY into a true tech town. The Imitation Economy: Innovation is overrated — it's time to appreciate the power of the copycat.
