Paul Stasi (SUNY-Albany): The Permeable Border Between Us and Them: Cinema, 9/11 and Radical Politics. The freegan establishment: How a group of Dumpster-diving, currency-scorning, society-rejecting outcasts came to embrace homeownership in Buffalo — sort of. From Foreign Affairs, a review of The Cambridge History of the Cold War. From Frontline, a review essay on how the United States misled Russia over NATO expansion eastward amid Europe's worries over German reunification. The introduction to The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties by Martin Klimke. Are the Ten Commandments really the basis for our laws? Dick Cheney's Last Laugh: The Deepwater Horizon disaster raises new questions about the Bush administration's secret energy task force. Mind over mass media: Technologies such as Twitter, e-mail and PowerPoint are far from making us stupid — they are keeping us smart. Nassim Nicholas Taleb is one of the great wiseguys or wisemen of the moment — quite possibly both. From The Tablet, maybe American liberal Zionism simply isn't worth saving. How twenty-somethings mate now: Three (very Jewish) rabbis' daughters, inhabiting a multicultural, radically new world, dish about their non-Jewish partnering. Is your mother a prostitute? Asking an NFL prospect such a question is one measure of the lack of respect that athletes must endure. Field of Dreams: Lewis Laphman on the CIA and other adventures in American sports. NG-Uh-O: David Rieff on the trouble with humanitarianism. You don't know how much you know: Most of our skills are like riding a bike; we have no idea how they work — that innate knowledge has some very important and bizarre consequences.
