A new issue of Hoover Digest is out. Keith E. Schnakenberg (WUSTL): Group Identity and Symbolic Political Behavior. Thirst for knowledge: Robert J. Bliwise on tapping into drinking water, a substance that’s been variously treated, distributed, regulated, consumed, and — unfortunately — taken for granted. All for one and one for all: Gillian Gillison responds to Marshall Sahlins. From n+1, the uncertainty of risk: Nick Werle reviews Nate Silver’s The Signal and The Noise, Nicholas Taleb’s Antifragile and James Owen Weatherall’s The Physics of Wall Street. Christy Wampole on the essayification of everything: Why has the form invented by Montaigne — searching, sampling, notoriously noncommittal — become a talisman of our times? Lawrence Klepp reviews Extraordinary Beliefs: A Historical Approach to a Psychological Problem by Peter Lamont.
