Simon Susen (City University London): 15 Theses on Power. Calvin H. Johnson (Texas): Charles Beard and Three Barbie Dolls. Waiting in line got a bad rap as an ever-present part of the Communist Soviet Union; it could turn out to be a big part of America’s urban future, because some lines are actually useful. The introduction to Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future by Cormac O Grada. Purple Reign: Chris Lehmann on the unmaking of a Yahoo. Your straight hair doesn't equal strength: Esther Breger on why we need more curly-haired heroines on television. The most luxurious and privileged condition may be one in which you get to experience yourself as endlessly surprising — a condition in which you hardly know yourself at all but have complete confidence that others know and respect you as they should. The glorious return of the egg: Michael Brendan Dougherty on why Uncle Sam is a horrible nutritionist. From TNR, Jamil Smith on working on the race beat: The future of racial coverage at The New York Times and elsewhere. Cass Sunstein on how Asians make it big in America. Rex Sorgatz on how The Daily Show triumphed (by enabling disruptive technology and embracing media inventions, but only when it made sense, which was less often than one might think; also: some luck). Alice Robb on what it's like to raise your children speaking Esperanto. Al Gore should run for president.
