From the latest issue of Human Affairs, Silvia Galikova (SAS): The Feeling Brain — The Thinking Soul; Simone Belli (UAM), Rom Harre (Georgetown) and Lupicinio Iniguez (UAB): What is Love? Discourse about Emotions in Social Sciences; Tatiana Buzekova (SAS) and Monika Isova (Comenius): Disgust and Intimacy; and a review of Emotions in Social Science: A Reader. Let us now celebrate the losers: We owe a debt to failures, to those creative ideas that flamed out or gloriously flopped. You are what you click: Marshall McLuhan once told us that “the medium is the message” — now the medium is rewiring the human brain. From NYRB, what to do about Guantanamo? A review essay. A review of Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority by Sue Fishkoff. A look at 6 iconic jobs that are going away forever. Playing air guitar is every frat boy’s favorite party trick but, the fact is, air guitar has roots that extend back prior to the heyday of heavy metal. Happy 200th, Snow White: Fairy tales do one thing, but they can do it in several different ways. When historian Jill Lepore stumbled on a letter from John Adams about the lies of American history, it brought to mind her own youthful brush with the Revolutionary spirit (and more). Corn and country: Julie Greene on Nebraska, Mexico, and the global economy. It is often asked: what is the difference between imaginative literature and other sorts of intellectual endeavor? The introduction to Lawyers and Fidelity to Law by W. Bradley Wendel. Era Klein on infrastructure, the best deal in the economy. When Machines Kill: What does it mean for a machine to "decide" to kill someone? They’re hiding the sex scenes: Somebody had been messing with Judy’s book. In the tank, on the clock: Can we kill time before it kills us?
