In the mean time Andrew Sullivan has done a post pulling together most of what I planned to say, so go read that instead. [read post]

Some newly published books of interest: Andrews, Lori, I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy (Free Press, 2012).Cascardi, Anthony J., Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics (University of Toronto Press, 2012).Chong, Sylvia, Sin Huey, The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era (Duke University Press, 2012). [read post]

---------In the midst of the case, Duke Magazine--an official University publication sent to all alumni--published a transparently slanted article on the case quoting from one and only one student (who demanded that the university apologize to Mangum) and from three of the team's most extreme faculty critics (Starn, Wood, and Baker). [read post]