David Estlund (Brown): Utopophobia. Ezra Klein on wealth-care reform: Fixing our health-care system will make us more economically secure — it won't make us much healthier. From PopMatters, Stonewall, 40 years hence: America's first gay Vice-President lived for 15 years with America's first gay President — and more from this Gay Pride Month's Public Service Announcement; and could Charles M. Schulz have guessed at his own cultural relevance, 50 years down the line? Jessica Valenti on the virginity movement, rebranded. You’re not alone; heck, there’s even a fancy, PC term for it, "involuntary celibacy" — so why does it feel like the rest of the world is having more sex than you are? AC Grayling reviews Charlotte Greig's A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy. Thanks, for nothing: Banks should be encouraged to pay back governments — but not to rewrite history. A review of The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics by Riane Eisler. John McWhorter on why Americans should spend fewer years in school. Changing behaviour will be as vital as new technologies in tackling climate change, so where is the funding for linguists, anthropologists and sociologists? Here are 3 good reasons (and 1 bad one) why you shouldn't buy into conspiracy theories. 

Stephen Law (London): The Evil God Challenge. Reason vs. Faith: If religion's advocates and skeptics are to have a meaningful dialogue, they need to throw aside their gross generalizations and condescension. Infrastructure for souls: Joseph Clarke traces the parallel histories of the American megachurch and the corporate-organizational complex. Who writes best about sex? Women certainly are passionate enough to create raunchy erotica, even if they are impeded by biased cultural expectations. Catherine Tumber reviews Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh by Gerald Grant. TPM takes a look at how many czars have been named so far to the Obama administration. As good as it gets: Would someone please tell me why I know absolutely nothing about almost everything? An interview with David Kessler, author of The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite. From E&P, Steve Outing on how readers want to pay for news online — so let them. An interview with David Neiwert, author of The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right. A review of Refractions of Reality: Philosophy and the Moving Image by John Mullarkey. A look at why economists failed to predict the financial crisis.

From Dissent, a symposium on Iraq, with contributions by David Bromwich, Brendan O'Leary, and George Packer, A look at how many Congressional members' websites are stuck in '70s. Arthur Danto reviews Robert Ryman: Used Paint by Suzanne P. Hudson. The Future of Poop: Welcome to the wonderful world of compost toilet tech. The Accu-Thump of Googletarity: The great danger in all historical research, for the lover of trivia and oddity, is distraction; it's one of the rewards, too. A review of Equal: Women Reshape American Law by Fred Strebeigh. FemiNoshing: Why do so many women see food as a frenemy, and why can’t even female TV cooks be fat? Poorly made: Why so many Chinese products are born to be bad (and more). The celebrated writer A. J. Liebling had what you might call a complicated relationship with newspapers. If we can just tweak the way we make choices, we can make smarter ones — a look at Obama’s plans to put the science of human nature to work. Are academics complicit in the proliferation of conspiracy theories, not least through reluctance to tackle "truthers" head on? The truth about writers: What do they really do with all that time? Modernist minotaurs: How Arthur Evans's excavations of the Minoan past on Crete inspired the artists and writers of the future.

From Lost, a special issue on the digital future. From 3 Quarks Daily, Evert Cilliers on The Capitalist Manifesto: How to Modernize Capitalism from Feudalism to Democracy. From Cif, do we expect too much of our leaders? A debate. A review of What Price Liberty? How Freedom Was Won and Is Being Lost by Ben Wilson (and more and more). From The Economist, dispatches from Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, the most diverse region on earth. Beryl Korot and her co-founders of Radical Software sensed they had a unique chance to have a powerful impact on the future. From The Objective Standard, an article on Justice Holmes and the Empty Constitution. The Good Soldier: An article on Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. An interview with Paul Krugman on the fear for lost decade. From Wired, dual perspectives on the future of social media: The fatal flaw with all the social media sites — MySpace, Facebook, Twitter — is that they are all separate services, but that may all be about to change, and soon; and is a Tweet the new size of a thought? From n+1, a review of Naomi S. Baron's Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World; Henry Jenkins's Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide; and Lee Siegel's Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electron.