Terry Flew (QUT): The Cultural Economy Moment? From The Awl, Katie Baker on why it's okay to feel "preemptively irritated". From New Scientist, an article on five emotions you never knew you had. David O’Neill on how Emily Dickinson’s legendary silence has produced a discordant chorus of speculation and mythmaking. Iran singled out Harvard professor Gene Sharp as a key inspiration for protesters' "velvet coup"; Sharp's manual on nonviolent protest shaped opposition movements in Czechoslovakia and inspired activists in Burma. A Teachable Turnpike Moment: Why it's a good thing the idiots on Jersey Shore are complete and utter idiots. How can MTV follow up Jersey Shore? Massholes. The effects of cattle production: A review of Revolution on the Range: The Rise of a New Ranch in the American West by Courtney White and Beef: The Untold Story of How Milk, Meat, and Muscle Shaped the World by Andrew Rimas and Evan D.G. Fraser. The madness of crowds: Mass delusions and hysterical outbreaks have repeatedly occurred in history, and there's no reason to believe they won't again. A review of The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge by Jean-Pierre Changeux. For the Society for Creative Anachronism, playing with swords is part of a lesson. Disputing taste: Carolyn Korsmeyer implores us to try a different flavour of thinking. From Page to Stage: Mark Chou on what emerges "in between" politics and art in George Packer’s Betrayed. A review of Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant by Jeremy Musson.
