David Estlund (Brown): Utopophobia. Ezra Klein on wealth-care reform: Fixing our health-care system will make us more economically secure — it won't make us much healthier. From PopMatters, Stonewall, 40 years hence: America's first gay Vice-President lived for 15 years with America's first gay President — and more from this Gay Pride Month's Public Service Announcement; and could Charles M. Schulz have guessed at his own cultural relevance, 50 years down the line? Jessica Valenti on the virginity movement, rebranded. You’re not alone; heck, there’s even a fancy, PC term for it, "involuntary celibacy" — so why does it feel like the rest of the world is having more sex than you are? AC Grayling reviews Charlotte Greig's A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy. Thanks, for nothing: Banks should be encouraged to pay back governments — but not to rewrite history. A review of The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics by Riane Eisler. John McWhorter on why Americans should spend fewer years in school. Changing behaviour will be as vital as new technologies in tackling climate change, so where is the funding for linguists, anthropologists and sociologists? Here are 3 good reasons (and 1 bad one) why you shouldn't buy into conspiracy theories.
