From The New Humanist, a review of Villages of Vision: A Study of Strange Utopias by Gillian Darley; underlying Carl Jung's brand of radical metaphysics, claims Paul Bishop, is a deep vein of rationalism; and taking liberties: True freedom requires not wealth but faith. Here's a list of 50 crime writers to read before you die. At 50, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart looks immortal (and more). From Discover, an interview with Leon Kass, George W. Bush’s conscience. The first female research mathematician had a program to solve Fermat's Last Theorem, and it was almost lost to history. More and more on Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature. Did the Pan-African Dream die with Apartheid? After the initial euphoria, many African Americans got their hopes dashed. An excerpt from Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy by Claudia Baracchi. From Atopia, a special issue on "straits": Neoliberal rhetoric would have us believe that we are living in a borderless world of free circulation; however, the exchange of goods and of people across very real physical geographies hardly corresponds to such an image. A review of We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age by Scott Gant. The appeal of democracy, the media and America has us all hooked: What if we could replicate that for global institutions?