Ian F. Haney López (Berkeley): "A Nation of Minorities": Race, Ethnicity and Reactionary Colorblindness. Daniel Goldberg (Baylor): Universal Health Care, American Pragmatism and the Ethics of Health Policy: Questioning Political Efficacy.
An excerpt from The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic. An excerpt from Trade in Classical Antiquity by Neville Morley. An excerpt from Ethnic Identity and Aristocratic Competition in Republican Rome by Gary D. Farney. A review of The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt: Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion by Christina Riggs. An excerpt from The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great by David Pratt. A review of Medieval Go-Betweens and Chaucer's Pandarus by Gretchen Mieszkowski. A review of In Search of the Holy Grail: The Quest for the Middle Ages by Veronica Ortenberg. A review of The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena by F. Thomas Luongo.
A review of Marxism and Ecological Economics by Paul Burkett. In economics departments, a growing will to debate fundamental assumptions. The LaRouche Youth Movement: Followers of “the best economist in the world today” are coming to your campus. Scott McLemee reads their literature without giggling. As of June 22, help is on the way for Maine students in the form of Opportunity Maine, an innovative local answer to the student debt crisis. The Greek government has approved a series of reforms intended to modernise its university system, including the opening of private institutions and placing a limit on the maximum study period. However, the students are protesting.
From Skeptical Inquirer, The Myth of Consistent Skepticism and The Cautionary Case of Albert Einstein: Being a skeptic implies that we consistently apply the methods of skepticism to all claims. However, all skeptics, even Einstein, are, at best, selectively skeptical; The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Lab closes, ending decades of psychic research; an article on deciphering Da Vinci’s real codes; and Theatre of Science: Two academics show—somewhat to their own surprise—that there is an audience for a live stage science show. And they have fun doing it. Will others follow?
