Li Feng (JIT): Discourse Markers in English Writing. From International Socialism, Paul Blackledge on Marxism and anarchism (and a response); a review of Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism by Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt; and a review of Goodbye Mr Socialism: Radical Politics in the 21st Century by Antonio Negri. A review of Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation by Stuart Buck. A review of Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us by Claude M. Steele. Death and taxes: Even nature is in on the act — Omar Malik discusses entropy's effects on human organisations. Anti-Social Media: Facebook, MySpace et al should not constitute the meat of a political campaign's media strategy. The Stranger in Academe: Rather than a handicap, foreignness can be a benefit that allows professors to speak truths that students wouldn't accept from Americans. Sam Kean, author of The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of the Elements, blogs the periodic table. From PopMatters, a special section on Alfred Hitchcock. From The Root, an interview with Russell Simmons; and it's time for African Americans to lock and load. The Perils of Progress: What about all the beautiful things that new technologies will take away from us? From Mother Jones, what psychiatrist Robert Butler left behind: He coined "ageism", he founded gerontology, and more reasons to remember this champion of elders; and meet the real death panels: Should geezers give up life-prolonging treatments to cut health care costs? From Political Affairs, Erwin Marquit on contradiction as source of structure and development in nature, society, and thought.
