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The comedy of the commons

From Prospect, the received wisdom is that President Bush has been a foreign policy disaster, and that America is threatened by the rise of Asia — both claims are wrong; and a profile of Arianna Huffington: By revolutionising news, might she also be in danger of destroying it? From The New Yorker, a review of White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple (and more). Malwebolence: Inside the world of online trolls, who use the Internet to harass, humiliate and torment strangers. John Locke as "authoritarian": Here's Leo Strauss' review of Two Tracts on Government. From The Economist, the comedy of the commons: Why it still pays to study medieval English landholding and Sahelian nomadism; and do economists need brains? A new school of economists is controversially turning to neuroscience to improve the dismal science. In defense of casual sex: A new raft of chastity books laments a hookup culture that is hurting young women. Jessica Crispin on what we can learn from 1940s sex-ed classes. Marriage, a history: Long ago, love was a silly reason for a match — how marriage has changed over history. A review of I Don’t: A Contrarian History of Marriage by Susan Squire. Research find men who marry a child's mother parent just as well, if not better than biological fathers.