From Transformations, a special issue on Walter Benjamin and the Virtual. A review of Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs. From LiveScience, a look at the truth about sensational kidney thefts. From The Hedgehog Review, a special issue on secularization, including Grace Davie (Exeter): Is Europe an Exceptional Case?; Wilson N. Brissett (Virginia): Secularization in the Global South: The Case of Ethiopia; an interview with Peter Berger; and a review of Susan Jacoby's Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (and more). A review of Impotence: A Cultural History by Angus McLaren. James Fallows on how China’s Great Firewall is crude, slapdash, and surprisingly easy to breach — and here’s why it’s so effective anyway (and an interview). Julian Baggini reviews Violence by Slavoj Zizek. A

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