An inability to settle

From TAP, a bad Supreme Court decision overturning race-based integration programs in Louisville, KY, and Seattle, WA, has produced a positive result. How a progressive idea ended up reinforcing inequality: A review of School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America’s Favorite Welfare Program by Susan Levine. The Malthus blues: Cheering thoughts about population. From Psychology Today, your personality isn't necessarily set in stone; with a little experimentation, the ornery and bleak can reshape their temperaments and inject pluck and passion into their lives; and whether coincidences are meaningful is a mystery, but our talent for noticing and manipulating them is increasingly clear. A review of books on the politics of oil. An interview with Paul Roberts, author of The End of Oil. A review of Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art by Simon Louvish. The GOP's nursing home dilemma: How a prominent abortion foe has pushed his fellow Republicans into a corner, forcing them to choose "life" or profits. Does this new edition of A Death in the Family right an injustice done to James Agee’s masterpiece by a previous editor? The misfits: The genetic legacy of nomadism may be an inability to settle. Get shorty: A sly political gesture enlivens an awards ceremony dedicated to the celebration of English. More and more on Adam Thirlwell's The Delighted States.