Nancy J. Knauer (Temple): Aging in the United States: Rethinking Justice, Equality, and Identity Across the Lifespan. From U.S. Intellectual History, James Livingston on the beautiful soul of Steve Almond, or, why The Baffler will never be funny. An interview with Sophia A. McClennen, author of Colbert’s America: Satire and Democracy. BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti is the Stephen Hawking of radical skateboarding birds. It’s time to welcome our robot underlings, starting with Baxter. It’s usually conservatives like Mitt Romney you hear bemoaning the 47 percent who don’t pay income taxes — but liberals who admire Europe should bemoan that number too. Elizabeth Drew says Republican voter suppression is the "worst thing that has happened to our democratic election system since the late nineteenth century". Max Dunbar reviews The Sex Myth: Why Everything We’re Told Is Wrong by Brooke Magnanti. The more people rely on their intuitions, the more cooperative they become, new research shows. David Sloan Wilson on Ayn Rand and modern politics. David Corn on how to beat the fact-checkers: Politicians have figured it out — when caught in a lie, attack the truth cops.
