From Things, it says a lot for our disconnection with the world around us that walking can be considered a creative, even subversive act. Can Auschwitz be saved? Liberated 65 years ago, the Nazi concentration camp is one of Eastern Europe's most visited sites — and most fragile. Is a happy anthropologist a good anthropologist? Katherine L. Smith investigates. A review of The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism by Pascal Bruckner. A review of Performing Dark Arts: A Cultural History of Conjuring by Michael Mangan. Our daughters should not be cut: Female genital mutilation isn't just a problem in other countries — it's happening here, and we need to face it. A review of Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey. From Arts and Opinion, Robert J. Lewis on the evolutionary significance of the imagination and on the origins of love and hate; do we need a law that tells us to do unto others as we would have them do unto us? The Law of Life says otherwise; and Geoff Olson on the seven deadly spins: No one ever choked to death swallowing his pride. Ed Park on Comic Novels: "Nabokov urged us to read with our spines, to savor the tingle that the best writing brings. I tell the students in my comic-novel seminar to read with their funny bones". From Telos, Maurizio Meloni on biopolitics in a neurobiological era. From Details, here's the amazing tale of the high school quarterback turned lesbian filmmaker. Speech Therapy: Is TV like Jersey Shore helping to preserve regional accents? Obama’s Bank Job: The Volcker rules are a great political idea — even though the real problems may lie elsewhere.
