A new issue of Daedalus is online, including Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (Wisconsin): Anti-intellectualism as Romantic Discourse; and Ajay K. Mehrotra (Indiana): The Intellectual Foundations of the Modern American Fiscal State. From Dilema Veche, Andrei Plesu on the Left treading on the Right (and a response and a reply). Counter-cougar thinking: Do 50-year-old women really want the sex life they had at age 25? Two rival scientific teams are locked in a high-stakes race to discover other Earth-like worlds — and forever change our own. A domain of personal tyranny: Bruce Page on a real history of Rupert Murdoch. An article on silencing the voice that says you're a fraud. Naming the Enemy: Grassroots activists take on the banking industry on the question of bankruptcy reform. Barack the Zionist: Why President Obama's approach to settlements is better for Israel than Benjamin Netanyahu's is. Settling for Radicalism: Gershom Gorenberg on how the Israeli government has fostered religious extremism and fractured its own democracy. Sex still for sale: Think Craigslist's dropped it? Look again (and more). Quirky philanthropy and reform theology seem unlikely bedfellows have created one of the newest and most interesting schools of divinity in the US.
