A new issue of Postcolonial Text is out. Kate Lowe (London): The Global Consequences of Mistranslation: The Adoption of the “Black but” Formulation in Europe, 1440–1650. From The Human Life Review, William B. Maguire on the “trials” and tribulations of mentally impaired plaintiffs. Can we reverse the Stanford Prison Experiment? Impaired visions: Jordan Michael Smith on how Thomas Sowell’s thinking is blinded by partisanship. What ever happened to the Starport, the brainchild of Jim Starry that re-imagined the airport? An interview with Andrew Blackwell, author of Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World’s Most Polluted Places. Derek Thompson on the economic history of the last 2,000 years in 1 little graph. The former colony of Angola has become an unexpected source of jobs and investment for Portugal in the global downturn. I’m (not) sexy and I (don’t) know it.
