From The Wilson Quarterly, America’s enduring love affair with big spending is fetching up against some unromantic realities; but a lifelong saver assures us that there are worse fates than socking it away for a rainy day. A review of The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen. Utopia isn't a dirty word: As the left searches for meaning, it would do well to reflect on Christianity's utopian vision for humankind. How did Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic hide from the world as a bioenergy-channeling, alternative-medicine-peddling, bearded and, well, nutty guru? Suddenly, a wider world below the waterline: Coastal states have now made their bids for vast new areas of continental shelf, and a look at the unplumbed riches of the deep — and why they’ll wait a while longer before being disturbed. Ants make more rational decisions than humans do, according to a new study. How in the world did people deal with the heat of August without air conditioning? Lots of ways, both time-tested and experimental. From TLS, an article on Marion Wallace-Dunlop, painter, suffragette and the first modern woman to starve herself for politics. Is the "Obama birth certificate" conspiracy theory becoming a threat to Obama? Or to the Republican Party? A review of Color-Blind Justice: Albion Tourgee and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson by Mark Elliott.
