A new issue of Columbia Political Review is out. Will Jones, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, and Harry Verhoeven (Oxford): Africa’s Illiberal State-builders. Max Byrne (Birkbeck): The Failed State and Failed State-Building: How Can a Move Away From the Failed State Discourse Inform Development in Somalia? Boom, bust or what: Larry Summers and Glenn Hubbard square off on our economic future. Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? Former FBI counterterrorism agent Tim Clemente claims on CNN that this is the case. From Wired, Steven Johnson on why no one clicked on the Great Hypertext Story. The possible doom of humanity: What's the greatest threat to our species' continued existence? Take a look in the mirror. Gun protesters plan march on Washington with loaded rifles to “put the government on notice”.
