Tomohide Yasuda (UM-Boston): The Application of Darwinism to Ideological Change, with a Case Study of Food-Safety Regulations. From the International Journal of Zizek Studies, a special issue on Zizek in Tehran. It takes an asteroid to show how wrong the right is: If the economy was ravaged by an asteroid instead of the Wall Street collapse, would they still want spending cuts? Research finds social networking triggers the release of the generosity-trust chemical in our brains. Culture clash in the China Project at Claremont's Center for Process Studies, which integrates Eastern and Western thought. The ruling in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project restricts aid and development groups — and leaves all of us more vulnerable to terrorism. Why rewrite history books? To accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative for the good of the nation. Why is wordplay still sexy? See Salman Rushdie. An insubordinate general, a soccer mutiny: Why hierarchy matters, even in an egalitarian world. “You’ll never be alone”: Christopher Clausen on America’s strange new retirement communities. How David Vitter got away with it: Three years ago, the "family values" conservative was caught in a hooker scandal — now, he's cruising to reelection. In the Age of Aggregation, even an impulsive click on your cellphone can become a piece of data for a project you never knew existed. The Cult of J.Crew: The retailer is doing exactly the right thing: selling clothes that women want to buy — why isn't anyone else? A look at how Columbia Business School loves Wall Street, still. Lady Gaga, guns and McChrystal: Jerry Lembcke on his book Hanoi Jane: War, Sex & Fantasies of Betrayal. A review of Napoleon’s Cursed War: Popular Resistance in the Spanish Peninsular War, 1808–1814 by Ronald Fraser.
