Asad Zaman (PIDE): The Methodology of Polanyi's Great Transformation. From Dissent, Margaret Somers and Fred Block on the return of Karl Polanyi. The free market is an impossible utopia: Henry Farrell interviews Fred Block and Margaret Somers, authors of The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique. Brad DeLong on Karl Polanyi, classical liberalism, and the varieties of "neoliberalism". Matthew Yglesias on how white-on-white murder in America is out of control. Self-segregation: Robert P. Jones on why it's so hard for whites to understand Ferguson. Art in the Infographic Age: Artists Tom Whalen and Kevin Tong break into the sophisticated, rapidly growing world of infographs with their exhibition, Info-Rama. A storm in a bucket: Kei Hiruta on lessons from the Ice Bucket Challenge controversy. Lee Trepanier on teaching in an age of ideology. I watched all the terrorist beheadings for the U.S. government, and here’s what I learned. What happens when The Simpsons becomes dad humor? Cian Cruise wonders. Ebolanomics: The lack of an Ebola treatment is disturbing — but, given the way drug development is funded, it’s also predictable. High stakes criticism: Lili Loofbourow on the case for academic gossip. Through lazy or fraudulent citations, scholars spread rumors — at times creating "academic urban legends”. Is Notre Dame Football too demanding? Latest academic incident raises a difficult question for the Fighting Irish. Leave it to Notre Dame to take a cheating scandal (if the skylarking of college athletes can even be called a scandal anymore) and somehow use it to buff its own halo.
