A new issue of Homeland Security Affairs is out. Alan H. McGowan (New School): Franz Boas and the Progressive Spirit. Molly J. Walker Wilson (SLU): Cultural Understandings of Risk and the Tyranny of the Experts. Josh Rothman reviews "Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity" by Scott Aaronson. The Agony and the Ecstasy: Brian Anderson on the quiet mission to fight PTSD with psychedelic drugs. The first chapter from Love's Vision by Troy Jollimore. Exactly your type: Katherine Eastland on how Times New Roman is a simple font with a complex story behind it. In the age of cellphones, Facebook, and YouTube, does sequestering a jury make sense anymore? A review of Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous Than Others by James Gilligan. What makes a great logo: Why we're drawn to the Apple apple, the CBS eye and the Rolling Stone tongue. A review of Intellectuals Incorporated: Politics, Art and Ideas inside Henry Luce’s Media Empire by Robert Vanderlan. A review of Law's Detour: Justice Displaced in the Bush Administration by Peter Margulies. The hunting of the snark: A High Court award of damages to an author who received a "malicious" review has raised eyebrows in a literary world more often accused of mutual backslapping. From progress to catastrophe: Perry Anderson on the historical novel. Martin Lewis introduces his Demic Atlas, which rests on the proposition that socio-economic comparisons work best when based on comparable units, framed at approximately the same scale of analysis. A review of Philosophy and the Moving Image: Refractions of Reality by John Mullarkey. A look at seven creepy experiments that could teach us so much (if they weren’t so wrong). A look at 5 famous ad campaigns that actually hurt sales.
