From Anamnesis, Richard Reinsch (Liberty Fund): A Constitution in Full: Modern Political Tendencies and the American Departure; and Joseph R. Stromberg (Independent Institute): Orestes Brownson and the Mystical Body of the Union. From the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, a table of remarkable Eras and Events. Public Intellectual, immigrant, activist: Roger Bromley on the many lives of Stuart Hall (and more). Justin Fox on the case for paying people more. Peter Ludlow on the strange case of Barrett Brown: Amid the outrage over the NSA's spying program, the jailing of journalist Barrett Brown points to a deeper and very troubling problem. Iveta Cherneva on Bulgaria’s Twitter revolution. Nerds and cat ladies alike should have stopped with their laser pointer keychains and questioned: "Are laser pointers illegal?" According to a new study, the answer in most cases is yes. John Halle on Tim Wise’s game. Prepare for the worst: Seth Stein LeJacq on how we generally agree that the big medical problems should be left to the professionals, but that wasn’t the case in seventeenth-century Britain, where domestic healing was the norm. Jacob Phillips reviews Bakhtin Reframed by Deborah J. Haynes. Marina Simakova on decoding democracy: Who’s next in this Pussy Riot marketing quest? Marc Tracy on why the hipster vote is meaningless in New York City. The CIA wants to control the climate!!!!11!
