Michael Quinn (UCL): Post-modern Moments in the Application of Empirical Principles: Power, Knowledge and Discourse in the Thought of Jeremy Bentham vs. Michel Foucault. Religion is a sin: Galen Strawson reviews Saving God: Religion after Idolatry and Surviving Death by Mark Johnston. A link between climate change and Joplin tornadoes? Never! Scientists have begun to focus on how architecture and design can influence our moods, thoughts and health. Often spot-on, sometimes creepy, David Thomson’s masterwork is the most influential book ever written about the movies — and the most infuriating. From New York, Sandy Pope was the daughter of an investment banker; she quit school and became a trucker — now she wants to run the Teamsters and make unions thrive again. The conservative Texas Public Policy Foundations's influence on Texas higher-education policy takes center stage again. In 1986, a young nurse named Sherri Rasmussen was murdered in Los Angeles; police pinned down no suspects, and the case gradually went cold — it took 23 years and revolutionary breakthroughs in forensic science before LAPD detectives could finally assemble the pieces of the puzzle. Joel Warner on Peter McGraw's attempt to explain every joke ever. Taki Theodoracopulos on monarchy, the fairest of them all. A review of Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says about You by Julie Sedivy and Greg Carlson. If expensive wines really don’t taste better, then the wine industry has no business model. The Making of Michele Flournoy: She’s a mastermind of the Afghanistan war strategy, and she may be the first woman Secretary of Defense. Blue Urbanism: Timothy Beatley on city planning and the ocean environment. Be specific: Perceived media bias can lead to political action.
