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From Philosophy Now, a special issue on Human Futures, including an editorial, Enhancing Humanity: Ray Tallis peers into the future, without fear; If we think carefully about our decisions, we’ll wind up living better lives, right? Jean Kazez asks this question in response to three recent books about happiness; Aristotle’s Email – Or, Friendship In The Cyber Age: Tim Madigan ponders the mysteries of friendship; a review of The Kantianism of Hegel and Nietzsche by Robert Zimmerman; a review of Moreel Esperanto by Paul Cliteur; and are there any limits to "less is more"? Death, where is thy sting? A review of Sartre: A Guide for the Perplexed by Gary Cox. A review of Existentialism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Steven Earnshaw. A review of Tales of Unknowing: Therapeutic Encounters from an Existential Perspective by Ernesto Spinelli.

Bruce Ackerman (Yale): The Living Constitution pdf. The introduction to What Democracy Is For: On Freedom and Moral Government by Stein Ringen. A review of A World Beyond Politics? A Defense of the Nation-State by Pierre Manent. From Shangai Daily, Confucius and Aristotle should talk governance: An interview with Michael Sandel. A review of Why Read Mill Today? by John Skorupski. Being There: Leland de la Durantaye is on the trail of Heidegger. An interview with Peter Singer on animal liberation and jailing animal activists as terrorists. Tom Nairn is one of the world’s great thinkers about nationalism and globalisation. His radical, vigorous, and incisive work continues to ignite and provoke. openDemocracy contributors reflect on what makes a friend and colleague forever young.

From Evolutionary Psychology, Daniel Farrelly, John Lazarus and Gilbert Roberts (Newcastle): Altruists Attract; Jonathan Gottschall (WJC): Greater Emphasis on Female Attractiveness in Homo sapiens: A Revised Solution to an Old Evolutionary Riddle; Steven M. Platek (Liverpool) and Jaime W. Thomson (Drexel): Facial resemblance exaggerates sex-specific jealousy-based decisions. Matthias Mahlmann (FUB): Ethics, Law and the Challenge of Cognitive Science (and part 2). A review of Cartographies of the Mind: Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection. An interview with Jill Bolte Taylor, author of My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey.

From German Law Journal, a review of The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal. A review of The Chicago School: How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business by Johan Van Overtveldt. David Warsh on how the world of non-standard economics is a complicated place. An interview with Robert Frank, author of The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas. A review of Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free by Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan. A review of The Volterra Chronicles: The Life and Times of an Extraordinary Mathematician 1860-1940 by Judith R. Goodstein. The introduction to Across the Board: The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems by John J. Watkins.

From NBER, a report on teacher incentives and student performance. The introduction to Does God Belong in Public Schools? by Kent Greenawalt. Publisher aims to teach kids right from left, seeing too many children's books with liberal views. His titles aim to tilt the shelves the other way. Mark Bauerlein on The Trouble with Tenure. Rich Lowry on The Rout of Military History in the Academy. In a high-tech age of instant communication, old-fashioned history is enjoying a renaissance in U.S. popular culture.