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The adultery of social norms

From Esprit, before we ask the question of a social Europe, a legal solution to the co-existence of social Europes (in the plural) must be attempted. From Social Europe, the dawn of a new era: An article on social democracy after the financial crisis. A review of Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC to AD 1000 by Barry Cunliffe (and more and more and an excerpt). Death in the Mediterranean: An article on the tragedy of Europe's boat people. We have the world's largest navy, they have speedboats and machine guns — what now? David Mulcahey reviews Nice Work if You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times by Andrew Ross. A review of Thinking of Others: On the Talent for Metaphor by Ted Cohen. A review of Unsettled Minds: Psychology and the American Search for Spiritual Assurance, 1830-1940 by Christopher G. White. A review of The Lives of Ants by Laurent Keller and Elisabeth Gordon. The Good Fight: A look at one man's search for tai chi as martial art. Jessica Valenti on Laura Kipnis' Against Love: A Polemic: If monogamous love limits women, then perhaps feminism is the adultery of social norms (and more and more). An interview with Dossie Easton, co-author of The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships and Other Adventures.