Carl L. Bankston (Tulane): Social Justice: Cultural Origins of a Perspective and a Theory. From Parameters, a special section on the Afghanistan-Pakistan conundrum. From Asia Times, Pepe Escobar on life in Talibanistan. From Gelf, when baseball let its hair down: It may not have featured the best players of all time, but the 1970s marked, for author Dan Epstein, the pinnacle of the national pastime's funkiness; and an interview with Michael Weinreb, author of Bigger Than the Game: Bo, Boz, the Punky QB, and How the '80s Created the Modern Athlete. From Government Executive, fixing IT has been a Sisyphean task, and governmentwide policy matters — but agency-level management matters more, and individual managers matter most of all; and can a federal agency be transformed through "openness" and "transparency"? Fighting the good fight: Dan Demetriou on a theory of honor in the octagon. Aside from the occasional l’chaim around the Kiddush table or on Purim night, Jews don’t drink, especially not beer. From European Alternatives, an interview with Samir Amin on emerging from capitalism in crisis; an interview with Ulrich Beck on a cosmopolitan outlook; an interview with Seyla Benhabib on immigration and asylum; and an interview with Nancy Fraser on transnational power and public sphere. Peru’s Lovely Bones: The Ocucaje Desert holds some of the most important fossils in the world — and Roberto Cabrera is standing guard.
