2008: hot or flop?
Which political and cultural happenings were given far too much attention this year or far too little? 100 Prospect contributors—including Niall Ferguson, Brian Eno, Duncan Fallowell, Ian Rankin, George Monbiot, Robert Reich, Anne Applebaum, James Lovelock, Pico Iyer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dominic Sandbrook, Peter Hitchens and many, many more—give their picks of the most overrated and underrated events of 2008.
Meanwhile, James Harkin looks back on the big ideas books of 2008. Crowdsourcing, nudging and mass collaborating all jostled for attention, but was it a vintage year overall—or a flop?
Elbow in with your thoughts below.
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Just to say that James Harkin’s review of the books for 2008 was brilliant. Thanks you.
I want to draw to Mr. Crabtree’s attention a comment that I made on an older post here. I have supplied reasons why the award to David Petraeus was poorly advised.
Reading your artical on books of 2008, one thing is clear.If you want write bestseller for western readers, you must know the psyche of western readers.[Whole world blindly follow with western countries test]
Western civilization based on fear show them fear they will instantly rush behind you.Just check it 2008 year bestseller list,they are show unconscious fear in readers mind.
All best sellers are very superficial,creating illusion in readers mind.Another trend you can see in them they make very attractive propoganda of these books. In today`s commercial age marketing is most important for sale.Realy speaking this is cheating, making fool to public. In my openion most of the people are loss their thinking faculty.