Michel Rosenfeld (Cardozo): Constitutional Versus Administrative Ordering in an Era of Globalization and Privatization: Reflections on Sources of Legitimation in the Post-Westphalian Polity. A review of James Geary's I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World. Man of a Hundred Thousand Books: Don Stewart is the neat, smooth proprietor of a rather unkempt and chaotic bookstore, where leisurely browsing is addictive and almost mandatory. A light for the future: Costica Bradatan on the political uses of a dying body. From Cracked, a look at at some awesome flag redesigns. Is analyzing culture with Google Books social science? Discovering fun facts by graphing terms found among the 5 million volumes of the Google Books project sure is amusing — but this pursuit dubbed "culturomics" is not the same as being an historian. A review of Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It by Gary Taubes. Niobe Way on her book Deep Secrets: Boys' Friendships and the Crisis of Connection. Michael R. Lemov on his book People’s Warrior: John Moss and the Fight for Freedom of Information and Consumer Rights. Slavoj Zizek on a vile logic to Anders Breivik's choice of target: Like Pim Fortuyn before him, Breivik embodies the intersection between rightist populism and liberal political correctness. What if you wrote a book and only one person read it? From The Exiled, Mark Ames on why the American Right never liked V.S. Naipaul; and radicals, imbeciles and FBI stooges: From Jerry Rubin to Rich Fink, we’ve reached rock-bottom, baby! A review of Everything is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails by Duncan J Watts. From HBR, a look at why American management rules the world; and Bill Taylor on why great people are overrated (and more).
