From Eye of the Heart: A Journal of Traditional Wisdom, Graeme Castleman (La Trobe): The Primordial in the Symbols and Theology of Baptism; Samuel D. Fohr (Pitt): Spiritual Symbolism in the Grimms’ Tales; Roger Sworder (La Trobe): Three Short Essays in Astrophysiology; Charles Upton on Homer, poet of Maya; and Tom Bree on symbolism as marriage and the symbolism of marriage. A look at the world’s ugliest statues: When bad art and bad politics meet. A review of The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves by Andrew Potter (and more). A review of Do They Think You're Stupid by Julian Baggini. A review of What is Posthumanism? by Cary Wolfe. Claire Barliant reviews The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy by Rachel Cusk. Three bad words: He was literally kicking my ass. The Yes Men Trick the World: Two college professors from the suburbs stole billions from a multibillion dollar chemical corporation and got away with it — and you can too. From The Federalist Debate, an essay on market fundamentalism and the abdication of politics. Pack Man: Charles Broadwick invented a new way of falling. How to con friends and influence people: Are they having a casual chat about a book or is this a sly attempt to make you buy it? Meet the actors paid to make you fall for crafty marketing tricks. A review of The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar. How many Americans does it take to slaughter a Third World child? The Weekly Standard celebrates William Stuntz, a gentleman-scholar at Harvard Law School (and more). Erin Sheley A review of Savage Century: Back to Barbarism by Therese Delpech. The return of the red bourgeoisie: An interview with artist Nada Prlja on the cultural context of communist Yugoslavia and its mutation into a consumer culture.
