Luke Norris (Columbia): Constitutional Economics: Lochner, Labor, and the Battle for Liberty. Joel I. Colon-Rios (Victoria): Rousseau, Theorist of Constituent Power. Chris Bertram recommends the best books on Rousseau. Giants of the cosmetics industry are facing off against smaller players over a proposal to give the F.D.A. more authority to ensure the safety of beauty products. Michael Kimmelman on the craving for public squares: “The perfect square, it turns out, is also a state of mind”. Having it all kinda sucks: Only women would sign up for this much crap. John Herrman goes inside Facebook’s (totally insane, unintentionally gigantic, hyperpartisan) political-media machine: How a strange new class of media outlet has arisen to take over our news feeds. Ashley Feinberg: “My year in Gawker hate mail”. Andrew S. Gold reviews Private Wrongs by Arthur Ripstein.
