Sunday, November 29, 2009 |

Interviews
Interview with Uwem Akpan
The author talks about his searing collection of stories, "Say You're One of Them"
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Book Reviews and Articles
Netherland
James Wood, The New Yorker
Cricket makes this exquisitely written a large fictional achievement and one of the most remarkable post-colonial novels written to date.
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Videos

Max Blumenthal: Republican Gomorrah
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Fred Kaplan: 1959
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Open Books: Rinku Sen
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PBC Interview: Jane Mayer on the CIA Tapes
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Around The Web
BHTV: Why Hasn't America Been Attacked Since 9/11?
Robert Wright and Robert Kagan discuss
Salon: Is the Internet melting our brains?
No! Such hysterical hand-wringing is as old as communication itself.
NPR: A ‘Shattered’ Republican Party?
How a culture of “personal crisis” has transformed the GOP
FT: The Greatest Show on Earth
Richard Dawkins presents the evidence for evolution.
Classics
Paine: The Greatest Radical of a Radical Age
Harvey J. Kaye: You want to understand the American experience? And why you hate injustice? Read Thomas Paine's
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The BlogNotes on books & politics
The Ideology of National Security: Four Convictions
by Julian Brookes Nov 25, 2009
In The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, Andrew J. Bacevich argues that U.S. foreign policy since 1945 has labored under multiple illusions–a blindness to...more

Progressive PUT DOWN
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Darrin McMahon: Reflections on Edmund Burke
The Right claims him as a Founding Father of Conservatism. But Edmund Burke is more interesting -- and less conservative -- than that.
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Author Roundtable
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Moral Clarity: How To Be Good
Todd Gitlin, Susan Neiman, Steven Lukes and others discuss the moral values that can reanimate the Left.
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Face Off
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Peter Beinart vs. Matthew Yglesias
What does a liberal foreign policy look like?
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Upcoming Events
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Book Talk Radio: David Owen and Majora Carter
Dec 1, 2009 
Join us on December 1 as author David Owen and activist Majora Carter discuss Green Metropolis and sustainable cities.
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Excerpts
What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?
By Kevin Mattson
Say You're One of Them
By Uwem Akpan
Bringing It to the Table
By Wendell Berry
50 Ways You Can Help Obama
By Michael Huttner and Jason Salzman
Republican Gomorrah
By Max Blumenthal
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