From Next American City, a special issue on Cities in Crisis. From LRB, an invertebrate Left: Perry Anderson on Italy’s squandered heritage. From The Atlantic, an article on learning to love the slasher-film renaissance; prophet without honor: Andrew Gumbel is among the polygamists in Hildale and Colorado City; and it's not nearly as beneficial as the popular literature suggests — is breastfeeding worth the cost of a mother's career, sanity, and independence? More and more and more and more on The Art Instinct by Denis Dutton (and more from Bookforum). Prominent economics professors say their academic discipline isn’t shifting nearly as much as some people might think. TARP Heels: Can conservatives overturn the bailout in court? Le vieux canard: The Economist on more nonsense about Europe and America. The indictment of Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir has raised the International Criminal Court's profile — and the stakes for international justice as a whole. Why exactly do so many bloggers hate Thomas Friedman's guts? Yes, More Mr. Nice Guy: What Barack Obama really means when he talks about bipartisanship. Forget the GOP; Obama's enemy is the angry public. Octomom Hypocrisy: Four reasons Nadya Suleman drives us crazy, and why we're wrong. As a new exhibition celebrates the work of Le Corbusier, architect Guy Booth argues that his legacy was monstrous (and a review at Bookforum).