"The 10 Best Books of 2007
100 Notable Books of the Year The Book Review picks outstanding works from the last year.
Many Americans still believe in conspiracies — Nearly two-thirds of Americans think it is possible that some federal officials had specific warnings of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, but chose to ignore those warnings, according to a Scripps Howard News Service/Ohio University poll.
Look and Learn: Virtual worlds and Strategic Communication
Study: Internet to be 'full' in 2 years Internet's pipes headed for a data clog, says tech think tank.
Of Blogs, eBooks, and Broadband: Access to Digital Media as a First Amendment Right Source: Hofstra Law Review
Media Studies
Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMONThe Italian philosopher talks about why politicians may one day rule via the media, what Italy taught the rest of the world and how he invented the best-selling novelist Dan BrownFreud Is Widely Taught at Universities, Except in the Psychology Department If you want to learn about psychoanalysis at the nation's top universities, one of the last places to look may be the psychology department.
Social Security: Five Myths and a Slur
by Ruth Marcus
Social Security isn't a big-deal problem because, absent any change, the system will be able to pay 75 percent of promised benefits in 2041. Even those reduced benefits would be larger, in real terms, than what current retirees receive.
A new cosmopolitanism is in the air: Ulrich Beck presents seven theses for a better world.
The original political vision: sex, art and transformation Terry Eagleton: Dissent and emancipation were holy for William Blake. He could teach our prime minister so much about how to be radical
China’s modernisation: a unique path?, Li Datong
A few days ago I was invited to dinner with a western diplomat. In the course of a discussion about China and its future, the diplomat raised a very interesting question:
Li Datong is a Chinese journalist and a former editor of Bingdian (Freezing Point), a weekly supplement of the China Youth Daily newspaper
Among Li Datong's recent articles in openDemocracy:..........
Delivering democracy, John Jackson
by John Jackson
What we call "democracy" is an amalgam of values, rights and systems. Attempts to define it will always be fuzzy round the edges. The same goes for "deliberative democracy". Do we mean a situation in which each citizen has an equal right to influence decisions which affect them by a process of informed interactive consultation? Or do we mean something that goes further - more Athenian, something more than "merely" deliberative?
