Thomas M. Poole (LSE): Reason of State: Whose Reason? Which Reason? Alexander Radygin and Revold Entov (Gaidar Institute): Failures of the State: Theory and Policy. Bruce Cahan reviews Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution by Marjorie Kelly. From Counterpunch, an interview with Marshall Sahlins on his resignation from the National Academy of Sciences after the election of Napoleon Chagnon to the NAS (and more from Survival International). Did Democrats get lucky in the Electoral College? Nate Silver on how the tendency of Democrats to cluster in urban areas has harmed them in the House of Representatives, but not in the Electoral College. From BPS Research Digest, was Proust really a neuroscientist? Philip Ball on the curse of cursive. Jeff Spross on how the debt everyone is freaking out about does not exist.
