From Prospect, everyone knows you can be famous just for being famous — but, with a new kind of reality show on the rise, is celebrity-land witnessing a flight towards authority?; and Britain’s got talons: Have anti-discrimination laws made us kinder than in previous eras? If Frank Ricci loses his discrimination claim, blame the Supreme Court's conservatives. In Vino Veritas: Binge drinking may look like a communal act, but it as an act of solitude, celebrating the self. The other Susan Boyle: The global success of the Britain's Got Talent star has had an unlikely impact on one unassuming Texas artist. A review of Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery by Steve Nicholls. The next tropical paradise: New ideas for what to do with America's piece of Cuba. If arts journalism is in trouble, what about publishing? Roger Scruton on Beauty and Desecration: We must rescue art from the modern intoxication with ugliness. My kingdom for a beer? An article on Heineken’s “Eurotopia”. Garrett Oliver, Brooklyn Brewery brewmaster, celebrates the end of the beer-industrial complex. Elizabeth Wilson reviews Diaries by Sergey Prokofiev; Sergey Prokofiev and His World, edited by Simon Morrison; and The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years by Simon Morrison.