Archive for September, 2008
The American Exception: Pop Culture Today
On the exceptional power of American culture, what first pops out of my own head is a moment about ten years ago, after narrating Aaron Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait (1942) at the JFK Library in Boston with the Indian conductor George Mathew — before George got his American green card.
The piece triggered a general …
Candid Capitalist: John Bogle
Legendary investor John Bogle calls it an overdue avalanche on Wall Street, fitting comeuppance for a financial industry that has been sucking value from the real economy for decades.
Slavoj Zizek: What is the Question?
Slavoj Zizek, theorist of everything, asks: what do we really believe in when the myth of market capitalism dissolves?
Torture, Part 3: the Philip Gourevitch version
Torture, Part 3: Philip Gourevitch asks about Abu Ghraib: how did we do this... to ourselves?
Philippe Sands’ Torture Team
Philippe Sands, author of \"Torture Team,\" asks: Who will answer for the crimes at Guantanamo? Who will prosecute the lawyers who designed the illegal \"black hole\"?
An American Exception, in Danger
Chuck Collins asks: can we talk about inequality in America... before the first middle-class society splits into Richistan and its sullen suburbs?
Rory Stewart: the Post-Imperialist Poster Hero
Rory Stewart, the Scotsman who walked across Asia in \"The Places In Between,\" details the war record in Iraq and Afghanistan that changed his mind about \"the project.\"
What’s So Great About Us
The exceptional nation. James Q. Wilson says the US remains a nation apart, for better and worse, in character and culture.
