From The New Yorker, John Seabrook on suffering souls and the search for the roots of psychopathy; and Malcolm Gladwell on the uses of adversity: Can underprivileged outsiders have an advantage? From New English Review, Theodore Dalyrmple on bibliophilia and biblioclasm and George Orwell's "Bookshop Memories". A review of Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays and All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays by George Orwell. From Scientific American, a look at what scares us and why; and are you evil? Profiling that which is truly wicked. A review of The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn’t — and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger by Daniel Gardner. From Boston Review, William Hogeland on Constitutional Conventions: Public history should make us think; and a review of The Measure of

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