The inaugural issue of International Journal of Humanities and Social Science is out. Robert Chesney (Texas): Who May Be Killed? Anwar al-Awlaki as a Case Study in the International Legal Regulation of Lethal Force. A review of Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about Marrying by Mark Regnerus and Jeremy Uecker. What in the hell is going on in Madison? Katherine Cramer Walsh investigates. For some, a list of 1001 books you "must" read is no mere suggestion; Jeremy Dauber explains his addiction to lists. A review of Everyone's a Winner: Life in Our Congratulatory Culture by Joel Best. The Octopus Conspiracy: Andrew Rice on Rachel Begley's search for her father’s killer. A review of Edgar Rice Burroughs & Tarzan: A Biography by Robert W. Fenton. The science of sex: 7 fascinating new findings. The Doctors and the Divine: What do we learn when we diagnose genius? The collapse of secure retirement: Teresa Ghilarducci on the dream of a modestly middle-class retirement is fading. From Hilobrow, just how far back in the day was the day of the pop-up? As it turns out, not very far back at all. Beyond Intellectualism: Robert Wright on becoming an anti-intellectual intellectual. From New Geography, we must all strive to form a new sort of tribe, comprising “reasonable persons of goodwill”. An interview with Nicholas Shaxson, author of Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World (and more and more). For how long have we cared about poverty? Tracing the number of references to the word “poverty” in books published since 1700, there was marked increase between 1740 and 1790, culminating in a “Poverty Enlightenment”. From satire to proposal in 120 years: Ptak Science Books found an apparently serious engineering proposal that echoes a satire done more than 100 years earlier.
