From Vanity Fair, for more than three decades, the fourth Dragon King of Bhutan steered his people into the modern world, while keeping their traditional culture intact; his recent abdication, at 53, in favor of his 29-year-old, Oxford-educated son, was another stroke of Realpolitik (and more). How did CEO compensation get so out of control? A review of Black Greek-Letter Organizations in the Twenty-First Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun. A review of Hegel's Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life by Robert B. Pippin. Jerry Siegel and Miguel Cervantes: each created an immortal literary character (Superman and Don Quixote, of course), but what else could they possibly have in common? "You've read the book, now take a look": An article on literary tourism and the quest for authenticity. As the industry stands ready to pulp entire newsstands, devotees of periodicals refuse to give up on their first love. In Jonathan Goldstein’s Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible!, old-fashioned storytelling meets irreverent characterization of some of the world’s most mythical personalities. A review of American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile by Richard John Neuhaus. Prostitution: What if we only criminalized the men? Leave no stone turned: Microstates flourish because big countries need them.

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