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Lessons for life

A new issue of The Salisbury Review is out. Robert Keith Shaw (Open Polytechnic) and Stephen Dun-Hou Tsai, Ted Yu-Chung Liu, and Mansour Amjadi (Sun Yat-Sen): The Ontology of Entrepreneurship: A Heideggerian Perspective. Rafe Sagarin thinks national security should use the adaptive tactics of nature — can the behaviors that biologists see keep us safer from enemies and disasters? From Reconstruction, a special issue on “something to occupy the time:” Activism and anagnorisis. Lessons for life in 64 squares: Beloved in Armenia, chess becomes a mandatory part of the country’s curriculum. From Wonkbook, you know the deficit hawks — now meet the deficit owls. In Gold We Trust: When the economy goes to pot, we the people place our faith in one indisputably sexy commodity — it's the lone bright spot on Wall Street and a rallying cry for the riotous right. From Ralph, a review of The Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halstead, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine by Howard Markel; a review of Dog Days: A Year in the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile by Dave Ihlenfeld; and a review of Lonely Planet's The World's Most Spectacular Routes.