From TLS, a review of books on Charlie Chaplin. Michael Shermer on what skepticism reveals about science. Lost and found ideals: The noble principles on which modern France was founded are in trouble, but the effort to give them new life is underway. Eryn Loeb reviews Not Becoming My Mother: And Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way by Ruth Reichl. Few books have so shocked received opinion and been as influential as A.J.P. Taylor's The Origins of the Second World War. Cyber-Scare: The exaggerated fears over digital warfare. Die Zombie Newspapers, Die! The dailies really died a generation ago, and now their corpses are following suit. Reinventing the magazine: Publications that push the boundaries of the print medium (and more on skin magazines). Like newspapers and other businesses buffeted by the financial crisis, the porn industry is in danger of extinction. A review of Obscene, Indecent, Immoral and Offensive: 100+ Years of Censored, Banned, and Controversial Films by Stephen Tropiano. Military thinking has invaded medical thinking — it’s time to replace shock and awe with health and peace. A review of Flotsametrics and the Floating World by Curtis Ebbesmeyer and Eric Scigliano. During past recessions, collective action among laid-off workers was common — will this financial crisis foster a similar movement?
