Neil Shea | American Scholar | 12 March 2012 With US forces. "Many times I have watched soldiers or Marines, driven by boredom or fear, behave selfishly and meanly, even illegally, in minor ways. [Now] I felt I was watching some of the men unravel toward serious crimes" Comments Jason Zengerle | New York | 18 March 2012 Legal case seeking overturn of Obamacare comes before Supreme Court next week. It's a defining moment. The man leading the case for the plaintiffs is Paul Clement, former solicitor general in Bush administration, and a coming man Comments Annie Murphy Paul | NYT | 17 March 2012 Investigating what neuroscience has to say about people who read novels. "Reading great literature, it has long been averred, enlarges and improves us as human beings. Brain science shows this claim is truer than we imagined" Comments Richard Marshall | 3:AM Magazine | 17 March 2012 Philosopher Graham Priest discusses paraconsistent logic, paradoxes, dialetheism. "Contrary to orthodoxy in Western philosophy, some claims are true and false, that is, they have a true negation. Nor is this irrational." Here's why Comments Leo Benedictus | Prospect | 22 February 2012 "Dog In The Night-Time"; "Never Let Me Go"; "Black Swan Green". What do they, and other recent novels, have in common? A narrator who leaves us guessing as to the full story. Is this "hindered narrator" the voice of our times? Comments Lisa Miller | New York | 18 March 2012 "God's gift", chill pills, benzos. Fast-acting anti-anxiety drugs for stressed workers. This is the era of Xanax, Ativan and Klonopin. A lot of Americans are taking them, casually. And with little thought of the consequences Comments | 
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