Charles Tandy (Fooyin): Entropy and Immortality. From The Independent Review, Dwight Lee (SMU): Why Businessmen Are More Honest than Preachers, Politicians, and Professors; and a review of “Are Economists Basically Immoral?” and Other Essays on Economics, Ethics, and Religion by Paul Heyne. From Wired, an article on the Secret of AA: After 75 years, we don’t know how it works. David Petraeus, America’s favorite general, emerged from Iraq a hero by lowering expectations; Matthew Yglesias on why that tack just might work in Afghanistan. Research suggests the human foetus feels no pain before 24 weeks. The Times of London published utterly untrue stories about the "climategate" emails; now they regret the error. Could Idaho get an all-volunteer state militia that’s out from under any federal control? The Genomic Bodhisattva: An interview with David Pearce, author of The Hedonistic Imperative manifesto. Richard Wolin on misunderstanding the 1960s: The attempt to discredit liberalism by associating it with the purported excesses of the 1960s has been one of the fixtures of American conservatism over the last four decades. Could it be that consumerism and communism are but two sides of the same ideological coin, one which puts paid to the idea of the existence of a private self? From Commentary, a symposium on Obama, Israel and American Jews. How “social” is your biopsychosocial model? A look at how neuroscientists can predict your behavior better than you can. Secret watchdogs: WikiLeaks and similar sites are a check on institutional misbehavior. From the new online magazine Capital New York, the funny thing is that The Epoch Times is actually a big publication; established by followers of Falun Gong, the paper is now an odd fact of New York life, present but not really accounted for.
