Steven M. Teles (JHU): Transformative Bureaucracy: Reagan’s Lawyers and the Dynamics of Political Investment. From New Statesman, a special issue on the ten people who could change the world. From The Nation, can Labor revive the American Dream? Esther Kaplan wants to know. A review of Human Rights and Health Care by Elizabeth Wicks. A review of A Natural History of Seeing: The Art and Science of Vision by Simon Ings. A review of Behind The Bedroom Door: Getting It, Giving It, Loving It, Missing It. A review of The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America by James Bamford. It so happens that we can give an exact date for the birth of musical romanticism, more than two centuries ago. From PhysicsWorld, a look at the Periodic Table of Videos. An interview with Woody Tasch, author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered. From Ctheory, three meditations on aspects of the screen as it relates to knowledge and technological living. A review of Bernard Williams. From Popular Mechanics, a look at the 9 most important watches in the world. Keynes is back in fashion, but his policies did not give to the state, at all levels, the leading role in investment that is now necessary. Are local journalists and fixers in hot spots cut loose by our news media?
