Archive for March, 2010
This "Year of India" (5): … and the chronic crisis of Pakistan
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Farzana Shaikh (38 min, 17 mb mp3)
Salman Rushdie, no less, finished his packed public talk at Brown three weeks ago with the observation that Pakistan is the globe’s true nightmare nation — that if Pakistan doesn’t rescue itself from political collapse into extremism, “we’re all fucked.” In …
Thomas Y. Levin: "surveillent narcissism" and other digital doubts
Thomas Levin, the Princeton media critic, marvels that Americans have happily embraced Orwell's worst nightmare: almost constant electronic surveillance: a sort of digital narcissism.
This "Year of India" (4): The NY Times’ Man in Bombay
We're getting a personal take on the New India that we haven't heard before from NYT's India columnist, Anand Giridharadas.
Tom Gleason’s Liberal Education: Memoir with Music
Abbott (Tom) Gleason, beloved Russian historian and public intellectual at Brown University, extends his Cold War memoir with music.
