Amanda C. Pustilnik (Maryland): Pain as Fact and Heuristic: How Pain Neuroimaging Illuminates Moral Dimensions of Law. Mark Haugaard (NUI Galway): Rethinking Power. From Foreign Policy, a special issue on The Future. From New Books in History, an interview with Ricardo Duchesne, author of The Uniqueness of Western Civilization; and an interview with Fred Spier, author of Big History and the Future of Humanity. A review of Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity by Alastair J. L. Blanshard. From Salon, it turns out it's difficult to find a researcher willing to defend monogamy, but one of the best arguments for monogamy is an argument against polygamy. A review of Realizing Tomorrow: The Path to Private Spaceflight by Chris Dubbs and Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom. A review of Hobbes: Prince of Peace by Bernard Gert. Evolution right under our noses: A small but growing number of field biologists study urban evolution — the biological changes that cities bring to the wildlife that inhabits them. Music for Peace: Donald Reeves explores how the complex music of Bach inspires his peace-building work in Bosnia. A review of This Incredible Need to Believe by Julia Kristeva. Harold Bloom on his favorite book in the Bible. The eerie beauty of rare alphabets: A Vermont-based writer is preserving ancient scripts by carving them into wood. Vice goes global: How a foul-mouthed upstart became an unlikely outlet of praiseworthy journalism. Do we protect native plants because they’re better for the earth, or because we hate strangers? A cherished principle of environmentalism comes under attack. Why your mayor has never been a libertarian: A partial list of the factors that keep local and state politics in the hands of Democrats and Republicans. Here are 5 bad ideas humanity is sticking with out of habit.
