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Cass Sunstein (Harvard): Originalism V. Burkeanism: A Dialogue over Recess. From Aeon, the ecology of Pooh: Adults may feel exiled from the intensity and sweetness of childhood places — but perhaps there are surprising ways home; and they were mouldy, unread and long out of date — so why did Julian Baggini feel so bad about burning his Britannicas? Scott McLemee remembers Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History — A Play in Three Acts by C.L.R. James. Washington is not the wealthiest area in America: The press would have you believe it is, but the statistics tell a different story. The father of all men is 340,000 years old: We had thought that all men share a common male ancestor who lived within the last 140,000 years, but one African American man has broken the mould. Sarah Williams Goldhagen on the revolution at your community library: New media, new community centers.