India
I first met Paul Scott at Firpo’s bar on Chowringhee in Calcutta in 1944. READ MORE >>
How India is Turning Into China
India Knows How to React to a Horrific Crime: With Angry Protests
JAIPUR, INDIA — A horrific, sadistic crime against the vulnerable shocks a nation. Television stations cover the story 24/7 and newspaper headlines are in bold caps. People talk about little else and all agree this can’t be allowed to happen again. READ MORE >>
Geoff Dyer’s Renovation of Contemporary Nonfiction
Before 2013 begins, catch up on the best of 2012. From now until the New Year, we will be re-posting some of The New Republic’s most thought-provoking pieces of the year. Enjoy. Zona By Geoff Dyer (Pantheon, 228 pp., $24) READ MORE >>
The Rushdie Affair and the Struggle Against Islamism
Joseph Anton: A Memoir By Salman Rushdie (Random House, 636 pp., $30) I. READ MORE >>
How Older Parenthood Will Upend American Society
The scary consequences of the grayest generation.
Over the past half century, parenthood has undergone a change so simple yet so profound we are only beginning to grasp the enormity of its implications. It is that we have our children much later than we used to. This has come to seem perfectly unremarkable; indeed, we take note of it only when celebrities push it to extremes—when Tony Randall has his first child at 77; Larry King, his fifth child by his seventh wife at 66; Elizabeth Edwards, her last child at 50. READ MORE >>
Who’s Luring Foreign Students and their Export Spending?
Earlier this week, the Association of International Educators (NAFSA) released new estimates of the expenditures of international students in the United States during the 2011-2012 academic year. According to the organization, this education spending (which count as exports) totaled about $21.8 billion last year in the 50 U.S. READ MORE >>
Against Foodie Diplomacy
Exports as Metropolitan Economic Development
Three years into the National Export Initiative, and just as Brookings is primed to further scale up its Metro Exports Initiative (MEI) to meet rising demand, there appears to be growing skepticism in some circles about the prospect of embracing and promoting exports in the face of a potential global economic slowdown. The media, regional leaders, and other interested parties--all are questioning whether the European debt crisis, a slowdown in China, and the overall weakness READ MORE >>
