China’s younger generation is coming of age with the inspiration of American pop culture. Who better to look at that country’s Generation Y than a 17-year-old high school student from New York? Plus: Israeli politics, the link between circumcision and herpes and John McWhorter on where Black America is going wrong.
A Giant Moves On
Isabel Kershner, a senior editor at The Jerusalem Report and author, Barrier: The Seam of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Palgrave MacMillan, 2006),
and
J. J. Goldberg, editor in chief of The Forward,
-on Ariel Sharon's departure from Israeli public life
» Barrier ...
and
J. J. Goldberg, editor in chief of The Forward,
-on Ariel Sharon's departure from Israeli public life
» Barrier ...
China in Your Hand
Michael Stanat, author, China's Generation Y: Understanding the Future Leaders of the World's Next Superpower (Homa & Sekey, 2005)
- gives an insight into the emerging youth generation in China
» China's Generation Y (SIS International Research)
- gives an insight into the emerging youth generation in China
» China's Generation Y (SIS International Research)
Winning Ways
John McWhorter, linguistics expert, senior fellow at the Manhattan Insitute, and author of Winning the Race : Beyond the Crisis in Black America (Gotham Books, 2005)
- where he thinks Black America is going wrong
»John McWhorter (Manhattan Institute)
- where he thinks Black America is going wrong
»John McWhorter (Manhattan Institute)
Questioning Tradition
Fred Mogul, WNYC reporter
- on a controversial circumcision ritual that has been connected to transmission of herpes to male infants
- on a controversial circumcision ritual that has been connected to transmission of herpes to male infants
Nytimes.com Readers Love: Macaroni, Coats for Dogs, Macaroni
With apologies to Gawker, BL blogger spotten this late last night on nytimes.com:
Photo File: Stanat and Mogul
Michael Stanat talking 'bout his generation
WNYC's very own Fred Mogul on Mohels
Required Reading: January 6, 2006
Analysis: Israel's future without Sharon (Haaretz)
Pat Robertson suggests stroke is act of divine retribution (science Daily)
Little give-and-take at White House confab on Iraq for former cabinet secretaries (NY Times)
New Yorkers are living longer (Newsday)
NJ moves to ban most indoor smoking (The ...