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This week’s articles of note
“Wanted: a grand strategy for America,” Newsweek, by Niall Ferguson [on “Obama’s Egypt debacle”] “The politics of the new middle America,” The American Prospect, by E.J. Dionne “Why isn’t Wall Street in jail?” Rolling Stone, by Matt Taibbi “Daniel Bell, master builder,” New York Times Book Review, by Sam Tanenhaus “How we know,” New York […]
This week’s articles of note: post-Mubarak edition
This week’s edition is a post-Mubarak reading list: “Mubarakism without Mubarak: why Egypt’s military will not embrace democracy,” Foreign Affairs, by Ellis Goldberg “Why Egypt’s progressives win,” Al Jazeera, by Paul Adam “Who lost Egypt? Not Obama,” Foreign Policy, by Aaron David Miller “Mubarak resignation creates vacuum for US in the Mideast,” The Washington Post, […]
This week’s articles of note
“How Cairo, U.S. were blindsided by revolution,” Wall Street Journal, by Charles Levinson, Margaret Coker and Jay Solomon “How democracy can work in the Middle East,” Time, by Fareed Zakaria “The West Wing, Season II,” New York, by John Heilemann “When Irish eyes are crying,” Vanity Fair, by Michael Lewis “Does football have a future?” […]
This week’s articles of note
“Dealing with Assange and the Wikileaks secrets,” The New York Times Magazine, by Bill Keller “Nudge on trial,” Slate, by David Weigel “Detroitism: what does ‘ruin porn’ tell us about the motor city?” Guernica, by John Patrick Leary “Crunch time: Barack Obama’s next two years,” The Economist “The revolt of the elites,” n+1, by The […]
This week’s articles of note
“What is a good life?” The New York Review of Books, by Ronald Dworkin “The baby butcher: pro-choice absolutism and a grisly abortion scandal in Philadelphia,” Slate, by William Saletan “Back to full employment,” Boston Review, by Robert Pollin “Real men find real utopias,” Dissent, by Russell Jacoby [Review of Envisioning Real Utopias, by Erik […]
This week’s articles of note
“Why Chinese mothers are superior,” Wall Street Journal, by Amy Chua “Social animal: how the new sciences of human nature can help make sense of a life,” The New Yorker, by David Brooks “Got dough?: public school reform in the age of venture philanthropy,” Dissent, by Joanne Barkan “Population 7 billion,” National Geographic, by Robert Kunzig “The political power […]
This week’s articles of note
“The rise of the new global elite,” The Atlantic, by Chrystia Freeland “The man who spilled the beans,” Vanity Fair, by Sarah Ellison [On Julian Assange and collaborating newspapers] “Cyberspace when you’re dead,” The New York Times Magazine, by Rob Walker “A question of character,” Boston Review, by David M. Kennedy [Review of Made in America: […]
Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for 2011!
I’d like to thank everyone for reading and commenting on The American Situation since its launch in March. Here’s hoping you enjoy the holiday season to the full, and that you take it to the next level in 2011. I’ll be back on January 3rd.
2010’s best articles
There were many excellent articles published during the course of 2010. It is hard to choose the best, but here are my top 10 (in alphabetical order by the author’s last name). I’m not saying I agree with everything in these articles, but they were definitely thought-provoking and addressed important issues of our time. “What good is […]
This week’s articles of note
“Person of the Year 2010: Mark Zuckerberg,” Time, by Lev Grossman “Left out,” The American Interest, by Francis Fukuyama “The President and the passions: has Obama misunderstood the psychology of politics?” The New York Times Magazine, by Mark Lilla “How a different America responded to the Great Depression,” Pew Research Center, by Jodie T. Allen [Hat […]