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February 2008
CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS
Illustration
[Cover art]
by
Tim Bower
See also:
Business cycles
;
Capitalists and financiers
;
Financial crises
;
Speculation
PDF
IMAGES
4 - 7
Letters/Department
Letters
On “
Specific suggestion
” from
October 2007
:
Letter
by
Wayne Costigan
On “
Woman marries snake
” from
November 2007
:
Letter
by
Eric Henry
On “
Modernism a la mode
” from
November 2007
:
Letter
by
Martin Filler
On “
Guantanamo baywatch
” from
December 2007
:
Letter
by
Carol Ann Wald
Letter
by
Clive A. Stafford Smith
On “
Of men and mice
” from
December 2007
:
Letter
by
Martin Stephens
Letter
by
Vern Paetkau
On “
Among the reviewers
” from
December 2007
:
Letter
by
Edmund L. Epstein
On “
” from
January 2008
:
Note/correction
PDF
IMAGES
9 - 13
Notebook/Article
The moral equivalent of empire
by
Jonathan Schell
See also:
Bush, George W.
;
Imperialism
;
International relations
;
Military leadership
;
Military policy
;
2001-
;
Nuclear disarmament
;
Nuclear nonproliferation
PDF
IMAGES
15
Harper's index/Department
Harper's index
PDF
IMAGES
17 - 19
Readings/Fiction
The compliance branch
by
David Foster Wallace
PDF
IMAGES
19
Readings/Illustration
Empty bar
by
Armando Mariño
See also:
Bars (Drinking establishments)
PDF
IMAGES
20 - 22
Readings/Article
Resistance is surrender
by
Slavoj Zizek
See also:
Anarchism
;
Capitalism
;
Government, Resistance to
;
Political ethics
;
Right and left (Political science)
PDF
IMAGES
21
Readings/Illustration
Death of Dale Earnhardt
by
Malcolm Morley
See also:
Accidents
;
Automobile racing drivers
;
Earnhardt, Dale
;
Death and burial—Pictorial works
;
Stock car racing
PDF
IMAGES
22
Readings/Article
Dictator's cut
by
Elham Rajabpur
See also:
Biography
;
Career as film director
;
Documentary films
;
Iran
;
Islam
;
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
;
Motion pictures
;
Stone, Oliver
;
Production and direction
;
Religion in motion pictures
PDF
TEXT
IMAGES
23
Readings/Illustration
Te amo Colombia
by
Renee McGinnis
and
James Prinz
(Photog.)
See also:
Colombia
;
Palaces
PDF
IMAGES
Readings/Fiction
ELF-CIO
by
Burke Butler
(Trans.) and
Mirta Narosky
PDF
TEXT
IMAGES
24 - 25
Readings/Article
The things they ate
by
Nick Allen
(Trans.) and
Arkady Babchenko
See also:
Babchenko, Arkady
;
Biography
;
Chechnia
;
Chechnia (Russia)
;
Civil War, 1994
;
Military life
;
Operational rations (Military supplies)
;
Russia. Army
PDF
IMAGES
25 - 26
Readings/Article
Mein crush
by
Geoffrey Garrison
(Trans.)
See also:
Hitler, Adolf
;
Attachment behavior in children
;
Berlin
;
Correspondence
PDF
IMAGES
26
Readings/Article
Sense and flexibility
by
C. Janru Huang
(Trans.) and
Li Li
See also:
Lee, Ang
;
Career as film director
;
Mass media and sex
;
Sex counseling
;
Sex in motion pictures
;
Sexual excitement
PDF
IMAGES
28
Readings/Illustration
Group Shot 3
by
Gale Antokal
See also:
Silhouettes
;
Walking
PDF
IMAGES
Readings/Article
Those methods were quite wrong
by
Geoffrey Brooks
(Trans.)
See also:
Hitler, Adolf
;
Atrocities
;
Generals
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Military leadership
;
Prisoners and prisons, German
PDF
IMAGES
29
Readings/Poem
Patent pending
by
Hugo Williams
PDF
IMAGES
30 - 31
Readings/Fiction
Is that you, Sister Marguerite?
by
Marguerite Duras
PDF
IMAGES
33 - 38
Article
Staying awake:
Notes on the alleged decline of reading
by
Ursula K. Le Guin
See also:
Literacy
;
Literature and society
;
Literature publishing
;
Reading interests
PDF
TEXT
IMAGES
39 - 45
Article
The next bubble:
Priming the markets for tomorrow's big crash
by
Eric Janszen
See also:
Business cycles
;
Capitalists and financiers
;
Financial crises
;
Housing policy
;
Infrastructure (Economics)
;
Insurance
;
Real estate business
;
Renewable energy sources
;
Speculation
PDF
TEXT
IMAGES
46 - 59
Article
Wasteland:
A journey through the American cloaca
by
Frederick Kaufman
See also:
Career in organic wastes recycling
;
Career in sewage disposal
;
Organic wastes
;
Organic wastes as fertilizer
;
Recycling
;
Boucher, Robert
;
Sewage sludge
;
Askew, Steve
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IMAGES
60 - 65
Article
Not what it takes:
Running for president on less than $2,000 a day
by
David Gargill
See also:
Career as candidate for U.S. president
;
Iowa
;
Cox, John
;
2008
PDF
IMAGES
66 - 74
Article
Go before you die:
A road trip through the “new” Colombia
by
Patrick Graham
See also:
Cocaine industry
;
Colombia
;
Drug traffic
;
Giraldo, Hernán
;
Homes and haunts
;
Journeys—Colombia
;
Escobar, Pablo
;
Paramilitary forces
;
Bolívar, Simón
;
Tourist trade
PDF
IMAGES
75 - 80
Fiction
Wars in distant lands
by
Raymond Stock
(Trans.) and
Najm Wali
PDF
IMAGES
81 - 82
New books/Review
New books
by
John Leonard
See also:
Schlink, Bernhard
;
Fanon
(Book)
;
Five years of my life: an innocent man in Guantanamo
(Book)
;
Homecoming
(Book)
;
Wideman, John Edgar
;
Kurnaz, Murat
;
Night train to Lisbon
(Book)
;
Mercier, Pascal
;
Banks, Russell
;
The reserve
(Book)
PDF
IMAGES
83 - 89
Review
Too true, the art of the aphorism
by
Arthur Krystal
See also:
Aphorisms and apothegms
;
Kafka, Franz
;
Shapiro, Fred R.
;
Geary's guide to the worlds great aphorists
(Book)
;
Geary, James
;
Gross, John J.
;
Hofmann, Michael
;
The Oxford book of aphorisms
(Book)
;
The world in a phrase: a brief history of the aphorism
(Book)
;
The Yale book of quotations
(Book)
;
The Zürau aphorisms of Franz Kafka
(Book)
PDF
IMAGES
89 - 94
Review
This way, not that:
Nadine Gordimer does as she pleases
by
Robert Boyers
See also:
Beethoven was one-sixteenth black and other stories
(Book)
;
Gordimer, Nadine
;
Novelists, South African
;
Pictorial works
PDF
IMAGES
95
Puzzle/Department
Be my valentine:
Heart transplants
by
Richard Maltby
PDF
IMAGES
96
Findings/Article
Findings
by
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi
PDF
IMAGES
WEEKLY REVIEW
February 5
by
Gemma Sieff
February 12
by
Claire Gutierrez
February 19
by
Sam Stark
February 26
by
Chantal Clarke
WASHINGTON BABYLON
February 1
Bookmark This
by
Ken Silverstein
February 5
War in Chad: World Bank-backed oil project hasn’t created promised “model” of development
by
Ken Silverstein
February 6
Yes We Can’t: Pundits fail, flail
by
Ken Silverstein
February 6
NRCC Financial Scandal Looks Like an Inside Job
by
Ken Silverstein
February 7
Curt Weldon: Back in business
by
Ken Silverstein
February 8
The Meaning of Mitt’s Tears
by
Ken Silverstein
February 8
More on the Scandal at the National Republican Congressional Committee
by
Ken Silverstein
February 12
Six Questions on How the GOP Will Run Against Obama for John Brabender
by
Ken Silverstein
February 13
Internal Dispute at SEIU Deepens
by
Ken Silverstein
February 13
Six Questions for Cathy Allen on How the Democrats Will Run Against McCain
by
Ken Silverstein
February 14
The Great Alterman Speaks: Thompson wraps up G.O.P. nomination as Edwards sweeps early Democratic primaries
by
Ken Silverstein
February 14
More Pork for Trident
by
Ken Silverstein
February 14
Department of Irony: United States backs Iran in lawsuit over murdered American
by
Ken Silverstein
February 15
Inside the Capitol Hill Club: Private “home away from home” for Republican lawmakers
by
Ken Silverstein
February 15
SEIU Replies to Rosselli Resignation Letter
by
Ken Silverstein
February 18
Six Questions for A.J. Rossmiller on the Politics of Intelligence
by
Ken Silverstein
February 20
Former Mossad Chief Argues for Talks with Hamas: Halevy’s views beyond the pale of American politics
by
Ken Silverstein
February 20
John Boehner Tees Off
by
Ken Silverstein
February 21
Six Questions for Glenn Greenwald on Campaign Coverage
by
Ken Silverstein
February 21
Rumors of McCain-Iseman Relationship Go Back At Least a Year
by
Ken Silverstein
February 25
Media Alert: To the Point
by
Ken Silverstein
February 25
Meanwhile, Turkey Invades Iraq
by
Ken Silverstein
February 27
Tom Ridge for McCain’s Veep?
by
Ken Silverstein
February 29
John McCain’s Charitable Contributions
by
Ken Silverstein
February 29
President Bush, Without Irony, “Assails Democratic Candidates’ Foreign Policy Views”
by
Ken Silverstein
NO COMMENT
February 1
Plato—the Præses lupus
February 1
Harper’s Favorite Son Declares His Race for the Presidency
by
Scott Horton
February 1
Mogilevich Arrested and Charged
by
Scott Horton
February 1
Another Election Season, Another Political Prosecution in Alabama
by
Scott Horton
February 2
Goldoni’s Bout With Lawyering
February 2
Góngora—for El Greco
by
Scott Horton
February 2
Hide and Seek With the Justice Department
by
Scott Horton
February 3
Hildegard’s Admonition to Do Justice
February 3
The Case for Impeachment
by
Scott Horton
February 4
Pindar’s Nomos
February 4
Hölderlin on Pindar’s Nomos
by
Scott Horton
February 4
Challenging Torture
by
Scott Horton
February 5
Hamilton on the Balance Between Liberty and Security
February 5
Six Questions for Alex Gibney, Producer of the Oscar-Nominated ‘Taxi to the Dark Side’
by
Scott Horton
February 6
Chekhov—the Necessity of Redeeming the Past
February 6
Can a Surge Strategy Work in Afghanistan?
by
Scott Horton
February 6
Celebrating the Life of Joseph Brodsky
by
Scott Horton
February 6
The Newspaper and the Schoolteacher
by
Scott Horton
February 7
Smith on the Conspiracies of Tradesmen
February 7
Catullus—Pining for Lesbia
by
Scott Horton
February 7
When is a Prosecution Political?
by
Scott Horton
February 7
Public Presentation
by
Scott Horton
February 7
Torture Groundhog Day
by
Scott Horton
February 7
“Objectivity” or Spinelessness?
by
Scott Horton
February 8
Schurz on Real Patriotism
February 8
Jim Haynes’s Long Twilight Struggle
by
Scott Horton
February 8
Media Alert
by
Scott Horton
February 9
Camus’s Plague
February 9
Shakespeare Sonnet 116
by
Scott Horton
February 9
Bush Justice Department Goes After Another Democratic Lawyer (And Why This is Bad News for Yoo and Bradbury)
by
Scott Horton
February 10
Calvin’s Rose with Thorns
February 10
Corruption in a U.S. Attorney’s Office
by
Scott Horton
February 11
Rilke on Beauty in the Perspective of the Child
February 11
The Ecstatic Vision of History in a Dürer Woodcut
by
Scott Horton
February 11
Democracy G.O.P. Style in Washington State
by
Scott Horton
February 12
Lincoln’s Whig Credo
February 12
Whitman’s ‘O Captain’
by
Scott Horton
February 12
A Lincoln Anecdote
by
Scott Horton
February 12
Media Alert
by
Scott Horton
February 12
Not a Lincoln, But a Fraud
by
Scott Horton
February 12
Nino Scalia, Your Hairshirt Is Showing, and Your Bishop Has a Message for You
by
Scott Horton
February 13
Beccaria on Official Criminality
February 13
Treating the Constitution as a Doormat
by
Scott Horton
February 13
Six Questions for Darius Rejali, Author of ‘Torture and Democracy’
by
Scott Horton
February 14
Bernard of Clairvaux on Love
February 14
Donne—‘Love’s Alchemy’
by
Scott Horton
February 14
Of Crime and Indifference
by
Scott Horton
February 14
A Valentine from the Ministry of Love
by
Scott Horton
February 14
Indeed, the Offender May Be Your Boss
by
Scott Horton
February 15
Hegel on Athena’s Owl
February 15
Macbush Comes to Brooklyn
by
Scott Horton
February 15
Congress Cites Bolten and Miers for Contempt–But Is the Issue Really Impeachment?
by
Scott Horton
February 16
Hawthorne—The Iron Rule of Our Day
February 16
Lorca’s Barren Orange Tree
by
Scott Horton
February 16
The Valentine’s Day Torture Trifecta
by
Scott Horton
February 16
No Time for Rest in the War on Teachers
by
Scott Horton
February 17
Wackenroder on Human Commonality in Art
February 17
Media Alert
by
Scott Horton
February 17
Jonah’s Fascism
by
Scott Horton
February 18
Madison—How Fear of Threats from Abroad is Used to Suppress Liberty
February 18
Wharton’s ‘Autumn Sunset’
by
Scott Horton
February 18
Still Writing as Bad as I Can
by
Scott Horton
February 19
Douglass—Rising Against Oppression
February 19
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the National Surveillance State
by
Scott Horton
February 19
The Bleak Picture on the ‘War on Terror’ Central Front
by
Scott Horton
February 19
Polk Award Recognizes Exposure of U.S. Attorneys Scandal
by
Scott Horton
February 19
Media Alert
by
Scott Horton
February 20
Jackson on Crimes Committed in the Name of Secrecy
February 20
Freedom of the Press, Bush Edition
by
Scott Horton
February 20
Heym’s ‘Umbra Vitae’
by
Scott Horton
February 20
Six Questions for Anthony Lewis, Author of ‘Gideon’s Trumpet’ and ‘Freedom for the Thought We Hate’
by
Scott Horton
February 20
Are the Gitmo Trials Rigged?
by
Scott Horton
February 20
CBS 60 Minutes Siegelman Story to Air on Sunday
by
Scott Horton
February 21
Beowulf’s End Times
February 21
The Great Guantánamo Puppet Theater
by
Scott Horton
February 21
Shorts from America’s Legal Hell-Hole
by
Scott Horton
February 22
Washington—the Failed Articles of Confederation
February 22
Lovelace’s ‘From Prison’
by
Scott Horton
February 22
Media Alert
by
Scott Horton
February 22
Guantánamo Puppet Theater: Intermezzo
by
Scott Horton
February 22
Rove and Siegelman
by
Scott Horton
February 23
Cellini’s Approach to Litigation Management
February 23
Department of Malicious Falsehoods
by
Scott Horton
February 24
John on Fear and Love
February 24
A Heart of Steel
by
Scott Horton
February 24
Another Abusive Prosecution by Alice Martin
by
Scott Horton
February 24
Eliot’s ‘Ash Wednesday’
by
Scott Horton
February 24
CBS: More Prosecutorial Misconduct in Siegelman Case
by
Scott Horton
February 25
Franklin—When Power Purports to Craft Right
February 25
Oscar for ‘Taxi to the Dark Side’
by
Scott Horton
February 25
Bridge in Brooklyn Noticed for Sale
by
Scott Horton
February 25
Media Alert
by
Scott Horton
February 25
The Great Tennessee Valley Blackout
by
Scott Horton
February 26
Nietzsche’s Pale Criminal
February 26
Ronsard’s Ode to His Mistress
by
Scott Horton
February 26
Rove’s Monday Whoppers
by
Scott Horton
February 26
B’ham News Dispenses More Koolaid
by
Scott Horton
February 27
Kepler on the Application of Science
February 27
Broadcast from the Ministry of Fear
by
Scott Horton
February 27
The Alternate Reality of the ‘Birmingham News’
by
Scott Horton
February 27
Media Alert
by
Scott Horton
February 28
Tocqueville on Arts and Sciences in a Democracy
February 28
Apollinaire’s ‘Le Pont Mirabeau’
by
Scott Horton
February 28
Six Questions for Ahmed Rashid on the Elections in Pakistan and U.S. Foreign Policy
by
Scott Horton
February 28
Abramoff and the Riley Band of Choctaw Republicans
by
Scott Horton
February 28
WHNT Blackout Update
by
Scott Horton
February 29
Mann on Myth, Psychoanalysis and Literature
February 29
Siegelman Updates
by
Scott Horton
February 29
Time for a Pardon
by
Scott Horton
THE CARTOONS OF MR. FISH
by
Mr. Fish
ARCHIVE
February 19
Fox Hunting
February 26
Cuba
February 28
Fidel Castro
February 29
William F. Buckley Jr.