Anna Marie Smith (Cornell): Deadly Force and Public Reason. Jesse Hearns-Branaman (Leeds): Utopianism and Alienation in the Information and Technology Society. Thomas Kleven (Texas Southern): Equitable Sharing and Democratic Theory; and Equitable Sharing and the American Ideal. From American, are Americans too dumb for democracy? Lee Harris wonders. A review of Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists by Rebecca Stott. What if economics, as we know it is not economic per se, but the product of socio-political arrangements between institutions of power and those conforming to such principles? From Philosophy Now, Joel Marks on crazy, or what is it like to be batty. Gail Collins on how Texas inflicts bad textbooks on us. Cities as technologically precise as a Formula One race car are being built now — do we really want to live in them?
