From Esprit, an interview with Laurent Mauriac and Pascal Riche of Rue89 on the gap between print and the Internet. A review of What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America by Peggy Pascoe. Why is our culture so obsessed with girls' chastity? Author Jessica Valenti talks about how purity balls and "barely legal" porn both feed the same idea: That a woman's worth is between her legs. The new romantics: Should we get the doctor out of the bedroom? From Slate, a special issue on food. What if people are biological unsuited for the American dream? How we may reinterpret Socrates’ ethical intellectualism: We do evil because we do not know better, in the sense that the better the information management is the less moral evil is caused. Legions of minorities and generations of stand-up comedians have all embraced labels that were hurled in spite — and so it is with Geek Monthly. A look at how the Geeks have inherited the Earth — and they rule it. A review of Genomes and What to Make of Them by Barry Barnes and John Dupre. Why Paul Krugman and Niall Ferguson are hammering each other about T-Bill interest rates. Dani Rodrik on a de-globalized world? A look at how expertise is alive and well on Wikipedia — as long as you know where to look.
