From Cabinet, Aaron Schuster on The Cosmonaut of the Erotic Future; and Simon Werrett on Sparks of Life. A look at why libertarians are oddly hopeful about the Obama administration. A review of Freedom and Consumerism: A Critique of Zygmunt Bauman's Sociology by Mark Davis. Is CondeNet dead? How a publishing giant failed to get the Web. Do elaborate Web sites and videos really sell books? As in so much of publishing, no one really knows. Advertisements for yourself: Can, and should, book authors become brands? Alex Beam on an E-Z guide to publishing (and more on A Great Idea at the Time). The introduction to Between Two Worlds: A Reading of Descartes's Meditations by John Carriero. A review of Moral Virtue and Nature: A Defense of Ethical Naturalism by Stephen R. Brown. Sanford Levinson on how

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