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Salvador Santino Jr. F Regilme (Berlin): Social Discipline, Democracy, and Modernity: Are They All Uniquely “European”? Fiscal policy is, indeed, a moral issue, and we should be ashamed of what we’re doing to the next generation’s economic prospects — but our sin involves investing too little, not borrowing too much. Why the GOP is killing the Post Office: The conventional wisdom is that the US Postal Service is closing post offices and ending Saturday service because it's broke — don't believe it. When Google lost its cool: In his prescient 2011 book The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry), Siva Vaidhyanathan opened his preface by observing that “it’s no surprise that we hold the company in deific awe and respect” — March 2013 has been the month that Siva’s chickens came home to roost. Harry Eyres reviews Confronting the Classics by Mary Beard.