From Cardus, an article on Christian economics — not an oxymoron, not a snooze; a conversation on neocalvinist-neopuritan dialogue; and a design problem: What is the Bible for? It's James Wood's world and we're just reading in it: A review of How Fiction Works. An interview with Sarah Katherine Lewis, author of Indecent: How I Make It and Fake It as a Girl for Hire and Sex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That Are Very Bad for Me. A review of Theme Park by Scott A. Lukas. From Carnegie Council, a panel on The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity by Nicholas Stern; and a panel on The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by David Kilcullen. Thomas Aquinas would have loved genetics: Aquinas was not trying to prove God's existence, but to reconcile him with Aristotle. A review of Adrian Kuzminski's Pyrrhonism: How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism. Hurt to Read: Back in the Mississippi Delta for the first time in four years, a teacher comes face to face with what he left behind. Econs and Humans: A review of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein. Desmond Tutu is renowned as the voice of conscience, a scourge of the unjust — but it's a put on.
