A new issue of Human Organization is out, including W. Penn Handwerker and Stanton Wolfe (Conn): Where Bad Teeth Come From: Culture and Causal Force. From The Nonprofit Quarterly, Rick Cohen on Senator Grassley and the Televangelists. Ghailani and the Case for Military Commissions: Conservatives are afraid of our own laws, even when the system works. Getting on in the world is a priority for many — but is social mobility good? All pain, no gain: Mark Ames on a brief history of “austerity program” massacres and disasters. A photo essay on Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing by Harvey Molotch and Laura Noren. A review of Publish This Book: The Unbelievable True Story of How I Wrote, Sold and Published This Very Book by Stephen Markley. The first chapter from Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind by Robert Kurzban (and more and more and more). Steeped in the pre-Christian traditions of English magic, Richard Heygate, author of Book of English Magic, warns readers not to dabble unless they are prepared to end up in a padded cell. The crying man: S. Allen Counter on the neuroscience of easy weeping. The longest-lived of camera films has just ended its 75-year history; the only laboratory that still processed Kodachrome, the first commercially available colour slide film, stopped doing so at the end of last year. Penny Reign: America’s least valuable coin endures. Mark Thoma on how the right kind of spending can fuel real growth. Anonymous was a Woman: Was your favorite famous quotation by Voltaire, Yogi Berra, or some woman you’ve never heard of? Splendid settings, it turned out, were glamorous only as long as people believed in them — the question now might well be: what future do we believe in enough, to make our fantasy a built reality?
