online archive
12:00PM
AUG 6 2007
International law, philosophy and social science and human nature
From German Law Journal, a review of Law without Nations? Why Constitutional Government Requires Sovereign States and The Case for Sovereignty: Why the World Should Welcome American Independence by Jeremy Rabkin; a review of Transformations of the State?, ed. Stephan Leibfried and Michael Zurn; a review of Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide between America and Europe by James Q. Whitman; and a review of The Dark Side of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism by David Kennedy. A review of Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War by Jean Bricmont. From Global Law Books, a review of Human Rights and Development: Towards Mutual Reinforcement; and a review of Reclaiming Development in the World Trading System by Lee Yong-Shik.
From TNR, a review of Jesus in the Talmud by Peter Schafer. A review of Rhetoric and Reality in Early Christianities. Studies in Christianity and Judaism. A review of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Volume XXXI. An interview with T.M. Scanlon, author of What We Owe to Each Other and The Difficulty of Tolerance: Essays in Political Philosophy. An interview with Nobel Prize laureate Daniel Kahneman on intuition and rationality. An interview with Tyler Cowen, author of Discover Your Inner Economist. The Uncanniness of the Ordinary: Stanley Cavell on how disenchantment is the cure.
From New Scientist, an article on free will: Is our understanding wrong? Physicist Gerard 't Hooft thinks it is. An article on neuroscience and genetics: Lest we forget or lest we remember? Blatant benevolence and conspicuous consumption: Charity is just as "selfish" as self-indulgence. From Scientific American, is greed good? Economists are finding that social concerns often trump selfishness in financial decision making, a view that helps to explain why tens of millions of people send money to strangers they find on the Internet; and The New Psychology of Leadership: Recent research in psychology points to secrets of effective leadership that radically challenge conventional wisdom.
