Simon James (Exeter): Combining the Contributions of Behavioral Economics and Other Social Sciences in Understanding Taxation and Tax Reform. From THES, a review of She's So Fine: Reflections on Whiteness, Femininity, Adolescence and Class in 1960s Music; and Robin Dunbar has to confess he never learned to play an instrument, but that doesn't stop him believing that music should be at the heart of education. A review of God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right by Daniel K. Williams. Learning from Tanzania: We could learn from a society that is used to doing without "stuff". Republicans prove to be the masters of campaign cliches. Are conservation biologists wasting their time? Ecologist Hugh Possingham argues that conservationists have made a fetish of monitoring ailing species, and what they should be doing isn’t counting but acting. An interview with Kelly Valen, author of Twisted Sisterhood: Unraveling the Dark Legacy of Female Friendships (and more). Watches and the Watchmaker: What does contemplating time tell us about God? The cautionary tale of a short-lived college: Founders College, in rural South Boston, Va., was pitched as a sort of Great Books college for devotees of Ayn Rand. Candidates trapped in the Panopticon: Updating Mao, political power now grows out of the barrel of a video camera. Experiments in Field Philosophy: More philosophers are working outside the academy to help solve social problems — it's a model that might also help the humanities survive. A review of Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle's Sweaters to Maine's Microbrews by Christian Lander. A new family tree for the plague traces its paths out of China. A look at how behavioral science is remaking politics.
