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Shooting them in the foot

From Rolling Stone, from tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression — and they're about to do it again. A review of Integrative Economic Ethics: Foundations of a Civilized Market Economy by Peter Ulrich. A review of God-Botherers and Other True Believers: Religion, Diseducation, and Politics by F. G. Bailey. A look at why Richard Florida's honeymoon is over. Nigel Warburton on racism, philosophy’s hidden shame. The soundtrack to your life: Celebrating 30 years of the Sony Walkman. The New Ludditism in Literature: What does it take to separate us from omnipresent digital phenomena, and will that separation one day be impossible, when gadgets, screens, and Wi-Fi are everywhere? A brief history of the bikini: How the tiny swimsuit conquered America. A review of Thomas Maier's Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love. Love Actually: Cristina Nehring writes in defense of Mark Sanford. The Prurient Trap: Conservatives used sexual morality as a weapon and now it’s shooting them in the foot. A review of The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History by Patrick Allitt. Is an ugly baby harder to love?