A new issue of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest is out. Krzysztof Koscinski (AMU): Current Status and Future Directions of Research on Facial Attractiveness. The New Deal in Reverse: How the Obama Administration ended up where Franklin Roosevelt began. Hearts actually can break: Broken-heart syndrome mimics a heart attack but is brought on by acute emotion or physical trauma. An interview with Edward N. Luttwak, author of The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire (and more). Why bother with the Olympics? Obscure, unpopular sports will never change the world. Torture tales: If the leftwing mass media continues to ignore political thrillers, this important means of shaping the public debate on torture and other critical issues will remain the exclusive weapon of the Glenn Becks of the world. A Tale of Two Cities: The Vancouver you see, and the one you don’t. A truly ethical foreign policy: Britain has no right to demand money back from Iceland; in fact, we should give them cash. An interview with Aleksandar Hemon on books on man’s inhumanity to man. An interview with Douglas Schoen, author of The Political Fix: Changing the Game of American Democracy from the Grass Roots to the White House. Eight spin-offs from space: Space is a complicated and expensive place to get to, that's why the technology the space program produces is so spectacular. NASA's David Morrison answers the top 20 questions about 2012 (and more). That Other War: Reagan-era drug war rhetoric is still with us, and so is the accompanying collateral damage.
