Jane C. Ginsburg (Columbia): From Hypatia to Victor Hugo to Larry and Sergey: “All the World's Knowledge” and Universal Authors’ Rights. From Popular Science, brain damage has unleashed extraordinary talents in a small group of otherwise ordinary individuals — will science find a way for everyone to tap their inner virtuoso? A long-lost play about the Haitian slave revolt is out in a scholarly edition — Scott McLemee wants tickets. Why do some journalists keep predicting a major challenge to the two-party system? Brendan Nyhan on the third party fever dream. Have you ever wondered what a more fatuous and less focused version of Occupy would look like, but lacked the requisite brain power to actually imagine it? Well, wonder no more — Simon Childs on how people who think they can change the world with “free hugs” are fatuous dickheads.
