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e n t s On October 27, 2003, the New York
Times ran a guest column on its Op-Ed page by David L. Kirp entitled
“How Much for That Professor?” The piece, which was about
universities spending big bucks to get professors with star power, focused in
its opening and closing paragraphs on the case of Niall Ferguson, described as
“the most widely discussed and controversial British historian of his
generation.” Last winter, New York University successfully recruited
Ferguson away from Oxford University with promises of big money and reduced
teaching responsibilities. Barely six months later Harvard lured Ferguson away
from New York University with an offer of even bigger rewards. REVIEW
OF THE MONTH “Global hegemony” might be defined as a situation in which one nation-state plays a predominant role in organizing, regulating, and stabilizing the world political economy. The use of armed force has always been an inseparable part of hegemony, but military power depends upon the economic resources at the disposal of the state. It cannot be deployed to answer every threat to geopolitical and economic interests, and it raises the danger of imperial overreach, as was the case for Britain in South Africa (1899–1902) and the United States in Vietnam (1962–1975). The Demand for
Order and the Birth of Modern Policing Why were the modern police created? It is generally assumed, among people who think about it at all, that the police were created to deal with rising levels of crime caused by urbanization and increasing numbers of immigrants … POETRY Under the patriot act, any strong arm
CORRESPONDENCE Al Goldberg, an MR reader, sent us five questions regarding our article, "The Global Minotaur" (MR July-August 2003). Answering them may help clarify a number of important issues brought to light by our article as well as issues which are always current in the wider debates within contemporary political economy. We answer his questions one by one but sometimes digress to cover other potentially interesting topics. BOOK
REVIEWS A review of Dead Cities: And Other Tales by Mike Davis. Poisoning Our Food A review of Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret by Duff Wilson. Language Reveals All A review of The Language of the Third Reich: LTI, Lingua Tertii Imperii-A Philologist's Notebook by Victor Klemperer. The Tragedy of
Rwanda Reviews of When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda by Mahmood Mamdani and A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide by Linda Melvern. |
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