Issue No.
19
December 2008
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| Welcome to December’s review |
 Tim Black
What better as an intellectual sandwich-filler between the relaxation of Christmas and the excitement and anticipation of a new year than an ideas-packed spiked review of books? To get your intellectual juices flowing as we approach 2009, this issue tackles everything from autism and human rights, to earwax and professional revolutionism. Helene Guldberg interviews Dr Michael Fitzpatrick about his new book Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion, in which he argues that the quack industry, with its fruitless ‘war against autism’, is distancing parents from their children and even harming autistic kids. Philip Hammond explodes the myth of human rights as an unalloyed good on the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration. Guy Rundle says we should reclaim Sam Adams, America’s great but forgotten revolutionary. Nathalie Rothschild plays anthropologist to that strangest of tribes: ‘white people’. And Stuart Derbyshire explores the link between snot and earwax and what it means to be human. There's much more besides. Tuck in. [Cover illustration by Jan Bowman.] |
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