From Florida Philosophical Review, a special issue on heresy, blasphemy, and freedom of expression. A project every bit as far-reaching and ambitious as the federal highway program is to be found on the drawing board, pretty nearly ready to go. More on Robert Kuttner's Obama's Challenge. A review of The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman (and more). Why is great perfume not taken more seriously? A review of Perfumes: The Guide by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez. More on Jenny Block's Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage. Forty-somethings on Facebook: Tunku Varadarajan gets up close and personal — online. A review of American Rifle: A Biography by Alexander Rose (and more). From Physorg, a look at why life originated (and why it continues). Here's 10 things fungi have done for us. Molecular gastronomy: An article on the new science of cooking. From Harper's, Scott Horton on the torture presidency. From The New Yorker, news you can lose: James Surowiecki on the newspaper industry’s uncertain future; a review of Susan Sontag's Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 (and more from Bookforum); and Shakespeare’s Shylock gets an appeal. Eric Banks on the legacy of Jonestown: Thirty years after the murder-suicides in Guyana, the country struggles with memories of the event.
