Caroline E. Reid (EKU), C. Kamper Floyd (USM) and Valerie Bryan (South Alabama): Social Work, Morally Relevant Properties, and Paternalism: Why Social Workers Need to Know Moral Theory. From New York, for decades, Martin Peretz taught at Harvard and presided over The New Republic — a fierce, if controversial, lion among American intellectuals and Zionists; now, having been labeled a bigot, taunted at his alma mater, and stripped of his magazine, he has found peace in a place where there is little, Israel; and on the trouble with liberty: Libertarians, of both left and right, haven’t been this close to power since 1776 — but do we want to live in their world? The Economist on the rise of the supermarket rag. Chris Lehmann on the Roberts Court: Five easy pro-business terms. The Bible Bee: With enormous cash prizes and endorsements from celebrities like Kirk Cameron, scripture contests are moving out of the church basement and into the limelight. TAP talks to an earmark defender. If robots could talk, would they signal where the food is? Victor Mair first encountered the Bronze Age mummies of China’s Tarim Basin 23 years ago; he and others have been trying to figure out what those people were doing there ever since. Do psychologists make better novelists? What happened when one researcher applied his powers of human understanding to the literary form. A look at 5 reasons why anticonformity is worse than conformity.
