Barry Eichengreen | American Interest | 7 May 2012 Worries abound about global status of the dollar, what it would mean for the US politically and economically if it weakened. But, as Eichengreen shows, there are both benefits and drawbacks to the dollar as reserve currency Comments Joan Acocella | New Yorker | 7 May 2012 Surveying the battle over the way we should speak. English "has always been a ragbag" and that has encouraged permissiveness. But the situation today is one of serious quarrel, between prescriptivists and descriptivists Comments Dick Teresi | Discover | 2 May 2012 "Organ transplants would be peripheral to the story of death if they were what the organ trade claimed them to be: The neat extraction of body parts from totally dead, unfeeling corpses." Regrettably that is far from the case Comments Margalit Fox | NYT | 8 May 2012 "Roundly praised, intermittently censored and occasionally eaten, Mr Sendak’s books were essential ingredients of childhood for the generation born after 1960 or thereabouts, and in turn for their children" Comments Maria Dolan | Smithsonian | 7 May 2012 "For several hundred years many Europeans, including royalty, priests and scientists, routinely ingested remedies containing human bones, blood and fat as medicine for everything from headaches to epilepsy." Last example? 1908 Comments Glenn Loury | Boston Review | 5 May 2012 Time to reappraise James Q. Wilson, political scientist and criminologist. "Towering figure" in American social policy. But what a legacy. His writings laid the foundations for generalised imprisonment and zero-tolerance policing Comments | 
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