Robert Skidelsky & Edward Skidelsky | Chronicle Review | 18 June 2012 Resuscitating economics as a moral science. "Let us imagine that everyone has enough to lead a good life. What is the good life? And what is it not? And what changes in our moral and economic system are needed to realise it?" Comments Frank Rich | New York | 17 June 2012 Negative campaigning isn't some toxic modern aberration in US democracy. In 1828 race, Andrew Jackson was accused of murder, cock-fighting and cannibalism. Let's face it, attack ads often work. Obama should go for it, says Rich Comments EJ Dionne | Democracy Journal | 13 June 2012 Super essay. "Americans disagree on who we are because we can’t agree about who we’ve been. We are at odds over the meaning of our own history and over what it is, philosophically and spiritually, that makes us 'Americans'” Comments Moheb Costandi | Scientific American | 17 June 2012 Fascinating look at a new frontier for neuroscience: Your gut. By the age of three, there are 100 trillion microbes inhabiting your gut. And research suggests they may be affecting your moods, emotions, even your personality Comments Sam Dolnick | NYT | 16 June 2012 Halfway houses were intended to help low-level offenders near end of their sentences. But it's now a growth industry for private sector providers, some with close links to politicians. Security is notoriously lax. Are we still safe? Comments Russ Rymer | National Geographic | 18 June 2012 There are 7,000 spoken languages at present. But one dies out every two weeks. "Different languages highlight the varieties of human experience, revealing as mutable aspects of life that we tend to think of as settled and universal" Comments | 
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