Bronwen Morgan (Britol): Reflections on Governance from an International Perspective. Lawrence Solum (Illinois): Constitutional Texting. Robert Mikos (UC-Davis): The Populist Safeguards of Federalism. Thomas DiLorenzo (Loyola): Can Governments Function Like Markets? Austrian Insights into Public-Choice Theory. Jacob Gersen (Chicago): Markets and Discrimination.
From the Carnegie Council, a review of Law, Politics, and Morality in Judaism, ed. by Michael Walzer, a review of Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny by Amartya Sen and Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Kwame Anthony Appiah, and a review of Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues by Catharine A. MacKinnon. John Gray's apocalypse: A sceptic, a wit, and a very English thinker; is John Gray also the best theorist about our troubled world today?
From Ovi, the attempt to divorce mythos (the imaginative) from logos (the rational) is as old as Plato’s Republic. The risk of that intellectual operation is that one ends up in rationalism, what Vico dubs “the barbarism of the intellect," pure reason rationalizing what ought never to be rationalized (and part 2). A review of Conventionalism: From Poincaré to Quine by Yemima Ben-Menahem. An excerpt from Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition by Mary Douglas.
From Edge, Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins on dangerous ideas. Animal Farm: William Saletan on the recombination of man and beast. Ready or not, here comes the post-genomic era. Here's a DIY Guide to Becoming a (Real) Cyborg. From Discover, relativity passes absolute test: Exacting research finds Einstein was exactly right. From Physics Today, the Soviet launch of Sputnik shook the confidence of Americans in the country's defense and in its science. President Eisenhower convened a meeting of scientists in the Oval Office that Hans Bethe called an "unforgettable hour". Out of This World: An article on 60 years of flying saucers.
For 2,000 years, the document written by one of antiquity's greatest mathematicians was ill treated, torn apart and allowed to decay. Now, historians have decoded the Archimedes book. But is it really new? Normally a sanctuary of scholarly meditation, the Vatican Library has been the scene of unusually hectic activity lately, as word has spread that it will close in July for a three-year renovation. An article on the modern librarian, a role worth checking out. A Peculiar Responsibility: American colleges and universities grapple with their ties to slavery. Doing well or doing good? As they seek meaning in their work, MBA graduates are defecting from Wall Street to work for NGOs trying to save the world. Is there life left in the once-rebellious Iranian student body after the ruthless crackdowns of the late 1990s?
