From Turbulence, a special issue on Present Tense, Future Conditional, including an interview with Felix Guattari: "There is no scope for futurology; history will decide". Back to the land: Why moving to the country will save us all. An interview with Tim Carney, author of The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money. A look at what today’s veterans can learn from tales of the Trojan War. From The Politic, an interview with Stephen Skowronek, author of The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton; an interview with Gary Sick, author of All Fall Down: America’s Tragic Encounter With Iran. A review of The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas by Diane Perpich. From World Watch, unnatural increase?: An essay on reducing family size and birthrates; and our panarchic future: An excerpt from The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization by Thomas Homer-Dixon. A review of A Movable Feast: Ten Millennia of Food Globalization by Kenneth Kiple. From EnlightenNext, a special issue on Constructing the New Man. From SciAm, a look at how renewable energy and storage solutions stack up; and does exercise really make you healthier? From Moment, an interview with Aaron David Miller, author of The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace (and more from Bookforum).