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How Susan Sontag Made Making Lists Sexy
Gide, Sherwood Anderson, Ludwig Lewisohn, Faulkner, George Moore, Dostoyevsky, Huysmans, Bourget, Arsybashev, Trumbo, Galsworthy, Meredith. Plus, the poems of Dante, Ariosto, Tasso, Tibullus, Heine, Pushkin, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Apollinaire, and the plays of Synge, O'Neill, Calderon, Shaw, Hellman. … Read More
April 14, 2009 | In Business & Economics
On Politics and Censorship in Modern Times
Given the international public’s unique readiness to equate “business” with “criminal,” it’s auspicious timing for the question of corporate money’s role in politics to return to the Supreme Court. … Read More
March 27, 2009 | In Truth & Justice
Ideas Have Consequences and Words Matter
As Noah Feldman shows us in "A Prison of Words," his Times Op-Ed piece yesterday, "refinements" filed recently by the Justice Department regarding the Guantanamo Bay lawsuits showcase the subtlety with which the Obama Administration employs editorial prowess—and restraint. … Read More
March 19, 2009 | In Media & Internet
Les Gelb, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, has written a new book, Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy. One piece of advice: Read it! … Read More
March 18, 2009 | In Truth & Justice
Roubini Fiddles While America Burns
Does everyone need to suffer? Should an image of Nouriel Roubini as standard-level modelizer trouble us? Probably not. As much as we might like the idea of him holed up in his—economics laboratory?—minding the meltdown and writing his Roubini Global Monitor posts, Wise Men have proved through the ages that there’s no direct correlation between interest in women and effectiveness as global leaders. … Read More
March 13, 2009 | In Arts & Culture
