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| This week on nybooks.com: From our January 9 issue, Garry Wills on Joe Scarborough, Tim Judah on Ukraine, Michael Greenberg on Borges, and Alice Marwick on data mining. PlusSarah Birke on al-Qaeda in Syria, Pico Iyer on Proust, J. Hoberman on comics, and David Cole on the NSA. Happy new year! |
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Garry Wills
Joe Scarborough’s silly picture of American politics leaves out most of the things that matter--including race, religion, and money.
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Tim Judah
“Revolution!” This is what they are shouting in Kiev. As the first snows of winter fell no one knew which way the upheaval would turn.
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Michael Greenberg
As a young man, Borges prowled the obscure barrios of Buenos Aires, seeking the company of cuchilleros, knife fighters.
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Alice E. Marwick
Using techniques ranging from supermarket loyalty cards to Facebook ads, private companies systematically collect very personal information, from who you are, to what you do, to what you buy.
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Sarah Birke
The rebel organization known as ISIS has swept across northern Syria, imposing sharia law, detaining and even beheading Syrians who don’t conform to its purist vision of Islam, and waging war on rival militias.
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Pico Iyer
Marcel Proust never formally meditated, so far as I know, and he never officially quit his gilded palace to wander around the world, practicing extremes of austerity. But if I want to understand the tricks the mind plays upon itself, I can’t think of a better guide.
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J. Hoberman
In 1896, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst went to war--not with Spain in Cuba but with Joseph Pulitzer in New York. His opening salvo was a five-cent color supplement, The American Humorist.
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David Cole
Judge Richard Leon’s ruling that the NSA’s program “almost certainly” violates the Fourth Amendment marks the beginning of what will be a long and historic struggle over whether the NSA’s program is indeed legal.
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