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What do we deserve?

Ben Trachtenberg (Missouri): Health Inflation, Wealth Inflation, and the Discounting of Human Life. Living in Two Worlds: The Jewish people offer a guide to how a distinct Aboriginal cultural identity can be maintained in the modern world. Mark Thompson on how to save a trillion dollars. The emergence of the death derivative: Perhaps more troubling are the moral questions raised by betting on people's deaths.

 A review of The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life by Harold Bloom. An interview with John Sides on what we can — and can’t — learn from early polling. A review of Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World by Tina Rosenberg. Novelist Edward Docx had to know what it feels like to be lost — truly lost — in the Amazon, so he went to Brazil and hired some men to leave him in the jungle. From The Humanist, what do we deserve? Namit Arora on distributive economic justice and the super rich; and David Niose on corporate power and today’s humanist: Redefining the role of the corporation must be a primary goal of the humanist movement of our generation.