Penny Crofts (UTS): Brothels: Outlaws or Citizens? From Vice, a special issue on fashion, including Walter Mercado on the celestial importance of style. From Public Discourse, Patrick Lee, Robert P. George and Gerard V. Bradley on marriage and procreation — the intrinsic connection (and part 2). From Mother Jones, will Japan's disaster halt a US nuclear renaissance? Boosters aren't backing off yet, but a change in public opinion could threaten the industry's rebirth; and is the government's nuclear regulator up to the job? Japan's nuclear crisis turns the spotlight on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's spotty record. From Quadrant, Rob Nugent on the decline of reading in an age of ignorance. Who’s winning in the sexual market? Michelle Rafferty comes up with a chart to sort all the data out. Martin Lewis on confusion about Syria’s Alawites. It's already clear that the earthquake and tsunami that hit northern Japan is the latest tragic example of our inability to predict when it matters most — what can the Edge community bring to the table? Tools for Thinking: David Brooks on how science offers some help in the everyday as we navigate the currents of this world. How to be happy: A review of Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will and This Is Water: Some Thoughts Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace. From Lacan.com, Shahriar Vaghfipour on how psychoanalysis works. We can't do without our private places to read and think, says novelist Philip Pullman. From The Hedgehog Review, Zygmunt Bauman on privacy, secrecy, intimacy, human bonds — and other collateral casualties of liquid modernity. Here are 12 vintage style posters pointing out political absurdities. Save it for HBO: A review of The Fugitive in Flight: Faith, Liberalism and Law in a Classic TV Show by Stanley Fish. Anis Shivani on the death of the New York Times Book Review and why that is a very good thing for books. Misinformation is as close as your inbox: New research suggests e-mail is an all-too-effective way of spreading false political rumors. Pamela S. Karlan on the health care challenge threatens all regulation.
