From Edge, here's the World Question Center 2009: "What will change everything?" Still revered for The Catcher in the Rye and the Glass Family, J. D. Salinger remains elusive at 90. A review of Objectivity by Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison. From NYRB, Marcia Angell reviews books on drug companies and doctors: A story of corruption. The Prophet: Ari Berman on how Howard Dean's fifty-state strategy remade the Democratic Party — what comes next? Francis Fukuyama remembers Samuel Huntington (and more and more). Children of the Revolution: Eve Fairbanks on House Republicans, now even more conservative. Auto Destruct: Jonathan Cohn on the tragic nobility of Detroit. International bright young things: The next generation of economists do their best work somewhere between the field clinic and the dissection room. From The Wall Street Journal, an article on the doomsayers who got it right. Here are nominees for the most infamous pronouncements made as the financial crisis unfolded this year. Michael Tomasky on America's hall of shame: From Sarah Palin to AIG's sales reps, the following characters have made us less than proud. David Brooks hands out the annual Sidney Awards. From The Village Voice, here are the top 10 rightblogger stories. Jonathan Chait on Marxists: They're everywhere you don't want them to be and nowhere you really need them.