The Bleeding Heart Show

Selected Reading (31/08/09)

• In their wisdom, the editors of Standpoint have decided to make feminists this month’s object of opprobrium. Nick Cohen & Clive James have both contributed very similar articles accusing feminism of turning a blind eye to Islamic misogyny. I’ll try to type my own tuppenceworth about this issue tomorrow.
• In Red Pepper, Joanna Cabello writes about environmentalism in Peru.
• Joshua Foust responds to General Stanley McChrystal’s assessment of the failing war in Afghanistan.
• As some crazy Texans keep banging the drum for secession, Patrick Barry points out how dire the consequences would be.
• After gobbling up Marvel, Disney now owns practically the entire cartoon universe.
• After the recent furore over rape in Iran’s prisons, two leading Iranian human rights campaigners point out that, sadly, it’s nothing new.
• After the brief flap over Portillo’s endorsement of Charles ‘Bell Curve’/'Underclass’ Murray, I thought I’d take the opportunity to post this excoriating review by the late Stephen Jay Gould.
• And Brad Plumer notes a few non-crazy ways to re-engineer the climate.