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Mitchell N. Berman (Penn): Judge Posner's Simple Law. Zvi H. Triger (COLMAS): “A Jewish and Democratic State”: Reflections on the Fragility of Israeli Secularism. Ebola czar Ron Klain says “This thing isn't over yet” — and the next pandemic could be even worse. From The New Rambler, an online review of books (“high-quality reviews of intellectually ambitious books, in the spirit of The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and the back half of the (old) New Republic”), Martha Nussbaum reviews On Opera and Essays and Reviews 1959-2002 by Bernard Williams. Ben White on the Goldman Sachs primary: It’s Bush vs. Clinton at Wall Street’s wealthiest bank. Sady Doyle on Leonard Nimoy, utopia, and the final frontier. NRA secretly backs group aiming to save elephants now, kill them later. Reanna Alder on how there's no getting off (the grid): Calling a gas-powered engine an “off grid” technology is like “unplugging” from the internet by using cellular data instead of an ethernet cable. You're a luddite? Don't worry, it's human nature. What's in a brand name: Chi Luu on the sounds of persuasion. When was the last time Coca-Cola did anything nice for you? Brands are not your friends. Eli Saslow on the public life and private doubts of Al Sharpton. Are bilingual people smarter than people who speak one language? F-bombs notwithstanding, all languages skew toward happiness: On the universal human bias for positive words.