From JASSS, a review of The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies by Scott Page; and a review of Social Neuroscience: Integrating Biological and Psychological Explanations of Social Behavior. Two new proposals look to greatly increase the number of people who have adequate retirement plans, one by encouraging workers to save and the other by requiring them to. From New Internationalist, this is the eternal fate of taxation: to be the abused or abusive means towards noble or ignoble ends, never quite able to escape its association with extortion and war. A review of Soul of the Age : The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate. An interview with Herve Kempf, author of How the Rich are Destroying the Earth. From The Monthly, what sort of prime minister is Kevin Rudd? Rover stares up at you, apparently yearning for a pat on the head: Can animals escape the present? From New York, why an informant betrayed a lifelong friend to help catch fugitive murderer James Kopp. How geoengineering works: 5 big plans to stop global warming. From Reason, a review of Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal by Randall Kennedy and Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness by John L. Jackson, Jr.
