From M/C Journal, a special issue on the cookbook. Adam J. Hoffer (Wisconsin) and George R. Crowley (Troy): Did You Say that Voting is Ridiculous?: Using South Park to Teach Public Choice (“The episode titled, ‘Douche and Turd,’ demonstrates the near-zero value of an individual vote). From 3:AM, Richard Marshall on Ernest Gellner’s Islamic Nietzscheans. Eric Schnurer on the secret to cutting government waste: Savings by a thousand cuts. It only takes about 42 minutes to learn algebra with video games? Keith Devlin investigates. From New Left Project, Sam Clevenger on why E.P. Thompson matters: Theory, academia, and political activism. Samuel Hughes on the purple passion of Michael Smerconish: Can an unpredictably centrist talk-show host with a yen for “nothing” really have an impact on the national discourse? From C2C, David Seymour on the Richard Florida-Joel Kotkin dust-up reprised. Michael Grabell on the temp workers who power giant corporations are getting crushed. From Jackson Free Press, do we still need to talk about race? Yes and no. A new "c-word": John McWhorter on the ludicrous debate over the word "cracker" in the Trayvon Martin trial. From TNR, a series of articles on a Second-Term Recovery Guide. Marc Abrahams on disgust with Disgust, and where’s McGinn? Chris Fox on the 6 most WTF scientific theories about existence.
