Brad DeLong (UC-Berkeley): What Has Happened to Milton Friedman's Chicago School? From Eurozine, Jens-Martin Eriksen and Frederik Stjernfelt on Culturalism: Culture as political ideology. Peter Augustine Lawler on 1968 in context: Scarcity and decade analysis. Damon Linker on the two Richard John Neuhauses (and more and more). From Discover, did humans colonize the world by boat? (and more) Why David Halberstam’s The Best and the Brightest should serve as a cautionary tale as Obama reconsiders the Iraq war — and Iran. Whatever happened to preemption? Max Boot on the Bush Doctrine after Bush. The worst is yet to come: Five economists whose prophetic warnings went unheeded preview the next stage of the global financial crisis. Some commentators are finding a tempting comparison between the Madoff scandal and the Social Security system — here's why it's wrong. From Gelf, an interview with George Kimball, author of Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Durán and the Last Great Era of Boxing; and an interview with John Capouya, author of Gorgeous George: The Outrageous Bad-Boy Wrestler Who Created American Pop Culture. Step aside, Sartre, this is the new face of French intellectualism: While the West threw billions at global poverty, Esther Duflo tried to solve the problem with science — it has made her France's most feted thinker.