From Prospect, many 68ers now feel ambivalent about their heritage — was too much of value discarded, and were the hippies just carriers of a new strain of capitalism? (a symposium); and many geneticists now think that the behaviour of our genes can be altered by experience—and even that these changes can be passed on to future generations. Tim Harford on how a new way to count national income could change how we think about immigration and development. Young and post-modern in NYC: Karen Karbo reviews Sloane Crosley’s I Was Told There’d Be Cake. From The New York Observer, an article on The Brooklyn Literary 100. From Foreign Affairs, Fareed Zakaria on on The Future of American Power; After Guantanamo: Kenneth Roth on the case against preventive detention; Andrew S. Natsiosa (Georgetown): Beyond Darfur: Sudan's Slide Toward Civil War; a review of A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World by William J. Bernstein; and a review of The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation by Strobe Talbott. How do military reservists balance the two sides of being "citizen-soldiers"? Scott McLemee asks the researchers. A review of Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt (and more).
