Thom Brooks (Newcastle): What Did the British Idealists Ever Do for Us? Fionnuala D. Ni Aolain (Minnesota): Masculinities and Child Soldiers in Post-Conflict Societies. Jurassic Ballot: When corporations ruled the Earth. From The National, an article on Sayyid Qutb, man of his era. A House that Murdoch Bought: Conrad Black reviews Sarah Ellison's War At The Wall Street Journal: Inside the Struggle to Control an American Business Empire, David Kindred's Morning Miracle: Inside the Washington Post; A Great Newspaper Fights for Its Life, and Gay Talese's The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World. Effing the Ineffable: How do we express what cannot be said? The introduction to The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany by Susannah Heschel. A review of Utopia or Auschwitz? Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust by Hans Kundnani. A review of Antimatter by Frank Close. The landmark 20th anniversary UN Human Development Index reveals global gains in development even in poorer nations (and more). 5 futurists on the single most significant technologic development of the next 20 years. "They all look the same" race effect seen in the brain. Lose your wimp, embrace your intellectual. Fat studies: A handful of colleges now offer classes entirely devoted to the overweight and obese, but are they intellectually topical or just feel-good, pro-fat propaganda? From Thought Catalog, basically a fucking asshole: An iChat interview with Gavin McInnes, founder of Vice Magazine; and a look at the emerging trend of using MS Paint and Paintbrush to express one’s emotions on the Internet. An interview with Richard Wolin on books on France in the 1960s. Start paying attention now: Hurricane Tomas is going to be a major, major disaster for Haiti.
