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The grand illusion

Mehdi Boussebaa (Bath): Professional Service Firms, Globalisation and the New Imperialism. The neuroscience of fear is incomplete without an account of philosophy and politics: Simon Wolfe Taylor reviews Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety by Joseph LeDoux. Danielle Paquette on the disturbing differences in what men want in their wives and their daughters. Reeves Wiedeman on the rise and fall of a Fox News fraud: Wayne Simmons used CIA credentials to get on TV and work with the Pentagon, but prosecutors say it was all a lie. The billionaire battle to own the Sun: Warren Buffett controls Nevada’s legacy utility, Elon Musk is behind the solar company that’s upending the market — let the fun begin. Anti-abortion groups join battles over frozen embryos. The first chapter from Invitation to Peace Studies by Houston Wood.