From Forum for Inter-American Research, Christoph Schaub (Columbia): Beyond the Hood? Detroit Techno, Underground Resistance, and African American Metropolitan Identity Politics; and Martin Luthe (Liebig): "Damn Straight, It’s Called Race!" Rap and the Transcultural Logic of Race. Time for some consistency: If Greece is the new Lehman, the new rules for banks should become the new rules for sovereigns — Alan Beattie offers a four-point plan. Bryan Walsh on the Gulf disaster: Whose asses need kicking? Sizing up the nightlife is a study of status distinction: Lauren Rivera infiltrated the nightclub scene in New York to uncover how doormen make split-second status decisions. The battling Hitchens brothers: Christopher and Peter both have new memoirs — while Peter wrestles with his absent sibling throughout, Christopher essentially ignores his brother. More and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more on Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens. This is not Obama’s Katrina; if anything, it’s Bush’s second Katrina — what other ticking time bombs await? From New Scientist, a look at how religion made Jews genetically distinct. Israel without cliches: Tony Judt on six reasons that the Middle East debate is frozen in place. S.O.S.: Israel faces an existential crisis — and Benjamin Netanyahu is making things worse. Jessica Loudis reviews On Rumors by Cass Sunstein. The World Cup is some sort of larger meditation on poverty or east/west relations or diplomacy and/or women’s rights, or maybe it’s just an exotic sport some people play involving the kicking of a ball into a net. A review of The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle by Philippe Descola. A review of Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism by Kristin Gjesdal.
