Go with the flow: Michel de Montaigne, first and greatest writer of "essays", can cure you of broken-resolution blues. An age of fleeting plausibility: This has been a decade in which we allowed ourselves to believe the most unlikely stories — why? A review of books on Ernst Cassirer. Why Twitter will endure: So you’re drowning in a sea of information — perhaps the answer is more information. Richard Harris, pastor of Living Hope Community Church in Lakeland, wrote One Nation Under Curse about his days as a member of the KKK in Indiana and how he was called to his religious faith. If you’re a reporter in Washington, you undoubtedly know Daniel Lippman well, very well — sometimes, perhaps, a little too well. A review of Thinking About Almost Everything: New Ideas to Light Up Minds. Millions of religious believers around the world share a passionate belief in the coming of doomsday — and that means that the End of Days will remain a factor in politics at least until, well, the end of humankind. A review of Sugar: A Bittersweet History by Elizabeth Abbott. Techno-utopian fail: From Iran to China, blogs and social-networking sites were touted by the West as the ultimate tools of democracy dissident movements; however, last year the revolution would not be Twitterised. Scary movie: A look at how Psycho loosed mayhem and chaos in American cinema. A review of The Healing Power of Ancient Literature. Nespresso, a widely popular espresso machine that uses individual capsules or pods, is the latest thing in high-end coffee. Open Democracy writers on 2010: global cracks, human prospects (and part 2).
