From Wired, a special section on new rules for highly evolved humans. Historian Margaret Macmillan shows how subjective history can be, by presenting four versions of the past 450 years (and more and more and more and more and more and an excerpt from Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History). An interview with Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment on the evolving situation in Iran. Why crowds are best left to their own devices: Do mass gatherings of people always turn into unruly mobs, or is it police tactics that are the problem? William Easterly on the tipping point: fascinating but mythological? John Dickerson on Obama's partisan attempt to change the meaning of bipartisanship. Is Sonia Sotomayor good for the Latinos? Political sex scandals can bring down careers and ruin reputations, but there's always someone who wins. Poor, Persecuted Sarah Palin: The GOP embraces the culture of victimhood. Can someone — let’s say Jack Vance — write about spaceships and monsters and alien civilizations and still be a great American writer? (and more) Bromosexual: Can two straight men have sex with each other on camera, and if so, is it art?
