March 19, 2001
If you were at all

If you were at all interested in Christopher Hitchens' lengthy-but-worth-it indictment of Henry Kissinger, and want more, more, more, there's a transcript of a recent Harper's-sponsored forum on the subject available on their site.

Also in praise of my favorite highbrow monthly -- although I can't refer you to any online sources for it, you might wish to go out and buy the new issue, which is jam-packed with the kind of reading I can't get enough of -- an enjoyable D.F Wallace excursion to the land of usage dictionaries, plus a mean-spirited but entertaining bash of Gopnik's Paris to the Moon by Christina Nehring, and an off-putting but compelling anthropological discussion of the idea of "human rights." Go buy a copy, go buy two copies already and give one to somebody. With that other culture organ focusing on cranking out double-length thematic advert-clearinghouses with riveting titles like "The Style Issue," it's the least we can do.

Posted by B T at March 19, 2001 10:44 AM