Germany
Strategist and Scourge
George F. Kennan: An American Life By John Lewis Gaddis (Penguin, 784 pp., $39.95) I. READ MORE >>
The Rumors of the Euro’s Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated
Defending Israel Against Its Right-Wing Jews
Mythbusting, Euro Crisis Edition
Republicans and their conservative allies are convinced that Europe’s economic troubles validate their ideological beliefs – in particular, the idea that large social welfare states are doomed to failure. Paul Krugman doesn’t agree: READ MORE >>
Oohs and Aaahs
Tony Bennett: The Complete Collection Sony Music READ MORE >>
Conspiracy Porn
The Prague Cemetery By Umberto Eco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 445 pp., $27) READ MORE >>
Should Novels and Politics Mix?
Don’t Blame All Germans for the Euro Crisis. Just Blame Merkel.
Berlin, Germany—Germany is at the center of the European financial crisis that is threatening to sink Europe, and much of the rest of the world, into a double-dip recession, but you would hardly know it in Berlin. But for the relatively small protests this past weekend in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, there have been few signs here of the discontented masses who have recently assumed control of city squares in Madrid, or threatened to storm the parliament in Athens. READ MORE >>
The Internet Intellectual
Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live By Jeff Jarvis (Simon & Schuster, 263 pp., $26.99) READ MORE >>
