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A whole way of life comes to an end

From Reason, the end of financial privacy: Why Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Austria caved on protecting its foreign investors; and a review of Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power by David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito. Washington’s New Black Pack: Ten to watch in Mr. Obama’s Washington. Carol Gilligan talks about what has changed since the publication of In a Different Voice. A review of Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons From the Biology of Consciousness by Alva Noe. John Dean reviews Howard Fineman's The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Inspire and Define Our Country. Guyana is a hard country to place, a nation of great beauty stumped by its recent history. Do we have the right to judge others? Steven Lukes reviews the evidence. From Nerve, more on the history of single life: Smut goes digital. The Porn Identity: Stacey May Fowles in conversation with Hal Niedzviecki on privacy and internet pornography. Miseries of Il Manifesto: Italy's small, independent, radical daily is an indispensable voice on the left. What will happen when the climate starts to change and the rivers dry up and a whole way of life comes to an end? The people of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin are finding out right now (and more).