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Things that go bump

From Ethics & International Affairs, Allen Buchanan (Duke) and Robert O. Keohane (Princeton): Precommitment Regimes for Intervention: Supplementing the Security Council; and Terry Nardin (NUS): Middle-Ground Ethics: Can One Be Politically Realistic Without Being a Political Realist? Too old to hold: Jesse Bering on MILFs, cougars and the mystery of gerontophilia. From Arcade, Roland Greene on the social role of the critic. Do-nothing Congress as a cure: The expiration of the Bush tax cuts would mean a return to the Clinton tax rates and a good start to a smaller deficit. Balanced-budget plan: How Congress could cut the deficit to zero in eight years by literally doing nothing. How Ayn Rand ruined my childhood: My dad saw objectivism as a logical philosophy to live by, but it tore my family apart. Here are 9 things the rich don't want you to know about taxes. Should financial literacy be mandatory? British MPs want compulsory finance education in schools, but there's mixed evidence on effectiveness. A review of Sex Before the Sexual Revolution by Simon Szreter and Kate Fisher. The 100th anniversary of Ellen Churchill Semple’s Influences of Geographic Environment makes this year an appropriate moment to revisit her scholarship. A review of The Use and Abuse of Literature by Marjorie Garber. The first chapter from Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It by Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel. Got robots? Kids and profs predict the future of work. Things that go bump in the night: In the community of believers, paranormal sexual encounters are known as “spectrophilia”. An epic undertaking to analyse and identify the triangle of nerd-geek-dorkery: Which is the more prevalent, are there sterotypes by subject, do some stand alone?