Hugo Mialon and Paul Rubin (Emory): The Economics of the Bill of Rights. A review of The Chicago School: How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business by Johan Van Overtveldt. A review of A Man of Letters by Thomas Sowell. 

From CRB, A Noble and Generous Soul: A review of Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life by Hugh Brogan and Democracy’s Guide by Joseph Epstein; and a review of The Intellectuals and the Flag by Todd Gitlin. Jonathan Ree on how Richard Rorty ditched his early positivism for an open-minded and iconoclastic pragmatism that irritated as many as it inspired. A review of Democracy and Tradition by Jeffrey Stout. 

A review of The War at Troy: a True History by Barry B. Powell.  A review of The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles. A review of Introduction a la "philosophie presocratique" by Andre Laks. A review of Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Neither-Good-Nor-Bad by Naomi Reshotko. A review of Reading Seneca: Stoic Philosophy at Rome by Brad Inwood. A review of Who Are You? Identification, Deception and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe by Valentin Groebner. A review of Ethics Vindicated: Kant's Transcendental Legitimation of Moral Discourse by Ermanno Bencivenga.

From Counterpunch, an article on the smearing of Robert Trivers, Dershowitz style (with the content of emails). Cynicism 101: Why the campaign against U.S. News & World Report's college rankings reeks of self-serving censorship. A Rank Exercise: Jay Mathews' method for ranking America's best high schools is so narrow it may actually be misleading (and a response). Peter Hyman, formerly one of Tony Blair's close aides who quit to become a teacher, reveals from the frontline why discipline and high quality teaching beat a blizzard of headline-grabbing initiatives. 

From The Chronicle, creatures in the curriculum: The growing field of animal law is attracting activists and pragmatists alike to a law school that offers such courses. From National Geographic, a single ant or bee isn't smart, but their colonies are. The study of swarm intelligence is providing insights that can help humans manage complex systems, from truck routing to military robots. Gender-specific fitness? A study finds that reproductively successful males have unsuccessful daughters. Darwin hits dating: Web sites attract beautiful people who use "natural selection" to eliminate the imperfect. Danger from the Belly Button: The navel gives a fetus life, but can bring a newborn death.