Mariam Thalos and Chrisoula Andreou (Utah): Of Human Bonding: An Essay on the Natural History of Agency. From The American Interest, Francis Fukuyama, Joseph Nye, G. John Ikenberry, Stephen Krasner and others take stock of Obama's first year. The quiverings about Obama's self-regard reveal more about the pathologies of his accusers than about the President. From Vanity Fair, behind the breakthrough magic of Walt Disney’s first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and his other 30s and 40s classics — Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi — toiled as many as 100 young women, the inkers and painters, working from dawn to dusk on thousands of cels that brought his dreams to life. From The Economist, a review essay on Albert Camus. A look at 7 bullshit police myths everyone believes (thanks to movies). An unexpected wedding invitation to the unfortunately named town of Al-Qaeda highlights Yemen's promise and its challenges. An interview with Adrian Johns, author of Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates. Was democracy born of science?: A review of The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason and the Laws of Nature by Timothy Ferris. Nestled between the Ukraine and Romania, Moldova is the kind of country you need to repeat two or three times when describing your itinerary. Moldova, a corner of potential in Europe, where Lenin still stands: How the Communist Party has held on to Moldovans' votes. A review of King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age by Kathryn Allamong Jacob.
