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Daniela Calanca (Bologna): Italians Posing Between Public and Private: Theories and Practices of Social Heritage. Ran Hirschl (Toronto): The Nordic Counter-Narrative: Democracy, Human Development, and Judicial Review. George Lakey on how Swedes and Norwegians broke the power of the "1 percent". Do institutions really matter? Francis Fukuyama on how the questionable relevance of institutions is brought home by the controversy over Hungary’s new constitution. The intellectual, the individual, and the state: An interview with Henrik Berggren, author of A Wonderful Time Ahead: A Biography of Olof Palme (and more). The Mystery Pilgrim: Augustine the Aleut hit Europe's most famous pilgrimage route, the Camino Santiago de Compostela, first in 2002, and then again in 2007, 2009 and 2011. A review of Vampire Nation: Violence as Cultural Imaginary by Tomislav Z. Longinovic. A decade from today, 20 percent of some Eastern European countries will have a Roma ancestry — yet despite strength in numbers, the cycle of exclusion and marginalization persists. Thermopolia of Pompeii, an ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire, has been re-opened.