From The Intercollegiate Review, a look at the Fifty Best and Fifty Worst Books of the (20th) Century. From Anthropoetics, Kyle Karthauser on Popular Culture after Postmodernism: Family Guy, Borat, The Office, and the Awkwardness of Being Earnest. The Margaret Mead of the North American Weirdo: An article on Christopher Owens and the Children of God. Many of the pavilions at the 2010 Expo in Shanghai are phenomenal, both inside and out; the USA pavilion, however, is neither. The weakest link: Why BP's rivals should be doing much more to stop the Gulf oil spill. News of every oil spill is illustrated with pictures of dead or oily animals; this is good for the animal, but bad for the environment. In the toilet: There are distinct similarities between what comes out on the page and what comes out in the w.c. Martin, Maggie, and Me: An excerpt from Christopher Hitchens' Hitch 22: A Memoir (and more). Carmen Reinhart and Vincent Reinhart on five myths about the European debt crisis. Europe is no model: Jeffrey Bergner on the genius of American politics. Surviving the Age of Humiliation: Public humiliations define our society today — here's how to conduct yourself to avoid being targeted. An interview with Michael Wolff: "Rupert will do anything". Charlotte Higgins on Gordon Brown's Ode to Post Neo-classical Endogenous Growth Theory. Philosophers Football: In a hard-fought game Socrates Wanderers asked questions of Nietzsche Albion, but in the end the German team’s sheer will to power won through. The ten biggest issues Elena Kagan will face. The return to elitism in education: A society's attitudes to innate intelligence are closely correlated with its levels of inequality. Rex Hammock on the benefits of having your disaster snubbed by the national media. Matthew Shaer reviews Risk by Colin Harrison.
