A new issue of Open Letters Monthly is out. From William James Studies, John Lachs (Vanderbilt): Human Blindness (and a response); a review essay on pragmatism in the 21st century; and a review of The Soul of Classical American Philosophy: The Ethical and Spiritual Insights of William James, Josiah Royce, and Charles Sanders Peirce by Richard P. Mullin. Charles Murray on the Europe Syndrome and the challenge to American exceptionalism: America’s elites must once again fall in love with what makes the United States different. All boarded up: The next stage of the national foreclosure crisis is how to deal with abandoned neighborhoods and trolling pillagers. A look at how the recession is good for the environment. From New Statesman, the magnitude of the global economic crisis means that we have to change completely the way we live — to do that, we need a new kind of politics; and so are there too many of us? If so, how long before our planet becomes unfit for purpose? (and more) From Ovi, articles on Jurgen Habermas on the vision of a post-secular Europe and on Jacques Derrida, a philosopher who cuts the ground from the under of philosophy's feet.  From Vision, an article on life without children: The new nurture gap; an interview with Paul Ehrlich, author of The Dominant Animal; a review essay on our biological place in nature; and a review essay on social cooperation.