Stranger and more brutal than fiction: Lorraine Adams looks at what happens when innocents are swept up in counter-terror efforts. Roger Scruton on how we have allowed too many things in our world to be priced. It’s strange to think that just a few years ago, it felt as if design schools and studios nationwide must have been holding special screenings of The Graduate. The Rise of the Designer: In the early half of the 21st century, it is the Designer, not the Architect, who will arbitrate and mediate our experiences, both real and virtual. Former New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse talks about Roe vs. Wade, partisan politics, and the future of abortion rights (and more). A review of The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government by Thomas Bisson. A review of Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi. Darwin at Work: Harold L. Sirkin on the survival of the fittest companies. Police are again investigating John Mark Karr, who falsely confessed to killing JonBenet Ramsey — a trail of death threats, gender switches and a "little girl sex cult" called The Immaculates. From Forbes, here are four reasons why airlines are always struggling. Restaurant loos are now seen as a key part of the eating-out experience; Peter York flushes out five different approaches. Conflicts, whether over ties to the pharmaceutical industry or fights over new categories of illness, come with the turf in revising psychiatry’s most important reference. Decades ago modern medicine all but stamped out the nervous breakdown, but like a stubborn virus, the phrase has mutated. The introduction to What's Luck Got to Do with It? The History, Mathematics, and Psychology of the Gambler's Illusion by Joseph Mazur.
