A new issue of Social Policy is out. Mary Josephine O'Grady (Witwatersrand): The Right to Know and the Right Not to Tell: The Ethics of Disclosure of HIV Status. From the inaugural issue of the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ben Ehrenreich on the Death of the Book; and Geoff Nicholson on Buster Keaton and the World of Objects. From Harvard Magazine, a profile of Andrew Sullivan, blogger supreme (and more). Welcome to the Ayn Rand Congress. TPM goes to the movies with the Tea Party's Atlas Shrugged. An interview with Harmon Kaslow, producer of Atlas Shrugged. From New English Review, Norman Berdichevsky on Dali and Gaudi, two eccentric Catalan geniuses and the Renaixenca; and Thomas J. Scheff on shame as the master emotion, with examples from pop songs. Why don't conservatives like AmeriCorps? Steve Thorngate wants to know. Value vs. Values: Timothy Devinney, Pat Auger, Giana M. Eckhardt on the myth of the ethical consumer. Patrick Lee, Robert P. George and Gerard V. Bradley on marriage and procreation: There is an intrinsic link between marriage and procreation, but this does not mean that infertile couples cannot really be married (and part 2). German psycho: Felix Baum replies to the Initiative Sozialistisches Forum's essay “Communism and Israel”. What is it about being "green" that inclines so significant a proportion of those who are that towards, ummm, a special focus on the Jewish state? Almost all executives want more and faster information, and almost all companies are racing to provide it — what many of them overlook, though, is that the real aim should be not faster information but faster decision making, and those aren’t the same things. What on Earth was a “Bourbon Democrat”? Heather Cox Richardson investigates.
