Plus: Ratko Mladić; Connoisseurship; Houseboats; Jane Addams
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Today in The New York Review of Books: Jed S. Rakoff implores the courts to care about global warming; Aryeh Neier deplores the likely end of international prosecutions for war crimes; Susan Tallman ponders the connoisseur; Piper French steps aboard Marin County houseboats; Felix Bazalgette looks at Madeleine de Sinéty’s photography; a poem by David Pollard; and, from the archives, Alan Ryan on Jane Addams.
A new edition of a manual that helps federal judges understand scientific subjects included a chapter on climate change that was withdrawn after attacks by denialists.
Ratko Mladić’s death in The Hague is a reminder that his present-day counterparts may not have to fear that they will suffer his fate.
Timely questions lurk at the heart of connoisseurship: What counts as originality, what value do we place on it, how do we protect it?
Joe Kloc’s portrait of a group of outsiders living on boats in Marin County provides a record of a community many wish would quietly disappear.
Madeleine de Sinéty sloughed off her aristocratic upbringing and spent her life capturing small-town life in Brittany and Maine.
Free from the Archives
Today is Jane Addams’s 166th birthday. In the Review’s May 11, 2006, issue, Alan Ryan wrote about the life and work of the pioneering reformer, women’s suffragist, antiwar activist, philanthropist, writer, administrator, founder of the profession of social work, cofounder of the American Civil Liberties Union, intellectual, public speaker, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who, for a short time in a small part of Chicago, “solved the difficult but inescapable problem of giving help without condescension in ways that we still do not know how to emulate in the modern welfare state.”
“A former governor of Illinois declared: ‘There was a great woman of the past, the Mother of God, whose name was Mary; and there is a great woman of the present, the Mother of Men, whose name is Jane Addams; and they stand alone in history.’”
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