A new issue of the Cato Institute's Regulation is out. Endorsements: How sports stars get inside your head. Scared yet: Jonathan Chait on The Wall Street Journal's punctuation fetish. Here are 5 great examples of in medias res. A new invention could soon change the face of shantytowns across the globe — called "Universal World House", the structures are light, cheap and made of paper. A review of Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Hegemony in the Middle East by Rashid Khalidi and A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East — from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Patrick Tyler. Bush talked a great deal about democracy during his eight years, but there are pitfalls with an all-Tocqueville, all-the-time approach. What about Obama's personality makes him so distrustful of ideology? The elephant in the room: McCain may be Obama's secret weapon. Amy Sullivan on Obama's other breakthrough: A big-city president. From Inside Higher Ed, an article on making wikis work for scholars. A dirty job: Nicholas Kristof visits a Camobodian garbage dump, where some families make their living scavenging through the toxic pile. For a small band of shrinks, intervening in catastrophic situations is an everyday event, but their experience at the edge has deep consequences for us all: It is altering our understanding of the true nature of human nature.