From Ethic@, Emilie Dardenne (Rennes): The reception of Peter Singer’s theories in France. From National Review, goodbye supply-side: An elegy for economic happy talk. A statistical-physics-based model may shed light on the age-old question, "how can morality take root in a world where everyone is out for themselves?" A review of A Good Talk: The Story and Skill of Conversation by Daniel Menaker. People don’t disappear nearly as often in real life as they do in fiction — we’re fascinated, as a culture, by the idea of vanishing. Megan Doll reviews Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin. A review of Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century by Dimitris Papadopoulos, Niamh Stephenson and Vassilis Tsianos. Here are 20 things you didn't know about light. From City Limits, how to survive in New York on $0 a day: Amid crisis-level black unemployment, government benefits, family support and off-the-books labor help make ends meet. Thomas Fleming on a few plain truths that should be obvious, whether the subject is welfare, foreign policy, criminal justice, or education. Daniele Archibugi reviews Peter Leeson's The Hidden Economics of Pirates. A review of Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity by Sander Gilman. Philanthropy is my co-pilot: Pete Peterson, Michelle Rhee, and the dilemma of private foundations setting the public agenda. A new book by Osama’s former bodyguard has just come out in France, filled with revelations — what is Osama Bin Laden’s worst nightmare? The Dasam Granth is all rhymed poetry but in the controversy about it there is growing vitriolic diatribe. A review of The Rule of Law and the European Union by Erik Wennerstrom and The Sovereignty of Law by Francis Jacobs. The question is as simple as it is hard to answer: Why do Catholic priests molest kids?
