THE WEEK THAT WAS (13-17/08/2012)
This week: I stressed the need for President Obama to present his own forward-looking economic agenda to counter Paul Ryan’s plan; I ridiculed a Daily Mail columnist for suggested that the Nazi axiom “Arbeit Macht Frei” might have a point to it; I took a short course of revision on the all-consuming Jew-hatred of Mel Gibson; and, I questioned why for the international left, rape doesn’t matter when it comes to Julian Assange.
Other writers featured his week included: Ryan Lizza in The New Yorker on Paul Ryan; Rachel Shukert for Tablet on the legacy of Marvin Hamlisch; Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker on Mormonism as the religion of commerce; and, Tablet contributing editor Jamie Kirchick on freedom of speech in Europe.
Elsewhere, from The Paris Review, Kazuo Ishiguro discussed the craft of writing The Remains of the Day, and James Taylor and J.D. Souther sang “Her Town Too”.
