Nelson Lichtenstein, The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business. Metropolitan Books, 2009 Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. Harvard University Press, 2009 Many New Yorkers might wonder what use it is to...
With the Humanities facing existential budget cuts and the industrialized world melting down in the greatest credit crisis since the last scene of Fight Club, Stanley Fish may be “the last professor,” but the Florida International University Law Professor is certainly not the...
Last month marked the Advocate’s inaugural forum seeking to understand “What’s Happening to America?” Since then, the question has been injected with increased urgency as American politics have soared to the heights of a chilling cynicism, while our economy has suffered a descent...
Amsden, Alice H. 2007. Escape From Empire: The Developing World’s Journey Through Heaven and Hell. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 210 pages. Cloth. $27.50 Chang, Ha-Joon. 2008. Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. New York: Bloomsbury Press. 288...
There is reason to believe that the United States is plumbing the depths of moral and political crisis. The easy response to this claim pins the blame squarely on George W. Bush, and his crooked cronies in the White House. And yet, upon further reflection, the Bush administration seems...
