Amartya Sen (Harvard): Adam Smith and the contemporary world (and more at New Statesman). From The American Scholar, William Deresiewicz on Solitude and Leadership: If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts. A review of Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities by Martha Nussbaum. Neanderthals may have interbred with humans: Genetic data points to ancient liaisons between species. Jeff Weintraub on how cynical inside-dopesterism masquerades as political journalism. The perils of meeting your favourite writers: You've been tremendously intimate with them long before you first say hello — this is a recipe for a disturbing experience. A review of Democracy Kills: What's So Good About the Vote? by Humphrey Hawksley. New Digital Tools: Readability and Evernote are two applications will make the time you spend online more efficient; Scott McLemee catches up with the pace of innovation. No one knows how to prevent the next crisis, but a bank tax is akin to an insurance policy for Wall Street. Andrew Bacevich reviews Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch by Eric Miller. Anthony Juluis on human rights as the new secular religion: The collapse of the socialist project means the new militant is not the party sectarian but the NGO activist. The pirates of Somalia aren't just after cargo anymore — they're targeting tourists, far from home. A review of American Counterinsurgency: Human Science and the Human Terrain by Roberto J. Gonzalez. Matthew Shaer reviews Floodmarkers by Nic Brown. From Life Extension, an interview with Sanjay Gupta on Cheating Death (and more; and a profile of Gupta at Emory Magazine). The U of Chicago Press offers Mark Monmonier's No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control as a free download.
