Herbert Golder (BU): The Greek Invention of the Human. Melissa Hamilton (USC): The Child Pornography Crusade and its Net Widening Effect. From Swans, Michael Barker on Challenging the Stanford Prison Experiment (and part 2 and part 3). From Tikkun, Michael Lerner on when “market man” consigns the common man to the dustbin of history. That old centrist magic: Jonathan Stein responds to Jonathan Chait. A review of The Horizon: A History of Our Infinite Longing by Didier Maleuvre. From Hilobrow, a series of posts asking you to look at that forgotten hipster. Republicans are once again arguing that American Jews will abandon the Democratic Party — but it won’t happen, because Jews recoil from the GOP’s overt Christianity, even when it comes with staunch pro-Israel views. A review of The Great War and the Making of the Modern World by Jeremy Black. 21st century sex: Forget the Kinsey Report — a new study exposes the true nature of human desire. From Nerve, a look at the ten greatest lists in the history of Western civilization. From TED, Tim Harford on trial, error and the God complex; and why do we like an original painting better than a forgery? Paul Bloom argues that human beings are essentialists — that our beliefs about the history of an object change how we experience it, not simply as an illusion, but as a deep feature of what pleasure (and pain) is. From Johns Hopkins Magazine, one size fits all? Not anymore — how reading our genes may transform health care. "We need a crisis, and a change of values": Herman Daly has advocated a steady-state-economy since the 1970s — Martin Eierman talked with him about the costs of growth, transformative politics and the dangers of academic determinism.
