Fabienne Collignon (Edinburgh): Silo Psychosis. From Pathways, a special section on How Poverty Gets Under the Skin: The effects of deprivation on blood, the brain, and the body. An article on Rand and Ron Paul as the libertarian Kennedys. A review of Rigging the Game: How Inequality is Reproduced in Everyday Life by Michael Schwalbe. George Scialabba on Hitchens on Chomsky. Simon Blackburn reviews How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One by Stanley Fish. The Information Sage: Meet Edward Tufte, the graphics guru to the power elite who is revolutionizing how we see data. Big Brothers: Thanks to Citizens United, thousands of Koch Industries employees were told whom to vote for. The man who made working out cool: For 20 years, David Barton has ruled the New York gym scene, but marital woes and financial problems are now his biggest challenges. A review of The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife by Marc Freedman. Even as we embrace Loving and the rights of loving couples, we should remember that it takes much more than a celebrated judicial decision to realize constitutional values. The Servant Problem: Lewis H. Lapham is in search of the lost battalion of America’s unemployed. For a long time people have asked about the sound of one hand clapping, but what about two hands? From Fortune, how can we address excessive CEO pay? Corporate boards and companies desperately need to rethink how they evaluate the way they pay their CEOs. Joshua Kim on 5 reasons librarians are the future of ed tech. BP's criminal negligence exposed: One year after BP's Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, the number of lawsuits against the oil giant continues to mount (and 10 reasons to still be pissed off about the BP disaster). Whenever we flush our toilets, with the conviction that we are performing a hygienic act, we are breaking cosmic laws, because in reality it is a godless act, a sacrilegious gesture of death.
