Thomas Kemple (UBC): The Spatial Sense of Empire: Encountering Strangers with Simmel, Tocqueville and Martineau. Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon talks to Inside Higher Ed about his new book, Noble Savages, and his lengthy and exceptionally controversial career (and more and more). Jeremy Waldron remembers Ronald Dworkin (and more by Eric Posner). The virtues of stone age dental hygiene: A study of bacterial DNA from the calcified dental plaque on 34 skeletons in Northern Europe has shown that our ancient ancestors had much better teeth than we do today. New sexual revolution: Polyamory may be good for you. Unlike the period of mourning usually observed when an elite periodical dies, no eulogies were written for Policy Review in other publications. Here is a cheat sheet from Screenwriting for Dummies.
