The latest issue of Pink and Black Attack, an anti-assimilationist queer anarchist periodical. A review of Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One by Zev Chafets (and more). Voodoo economics: What vampire and zombie movies can tell us about the future of capitalism. An interview with Karma Waltonen, author of The Simpsons in the Classroom: Embiggening the Learning Experience with the Wisdom of Springfield. More and more on Richard Clarke's Cyber War. Who's afraid of synthetic biology? Don't let fears about frankenmicrobes halt promising research. Nicolai Sennels on the psychological differences between Muslims and Westerners. A review of The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley (and more and more and more and more and more). What this country needs is a grand unified theory of the hoax. MetaFilter saved my pals from sex traffickers: How an online community mobilized to rescue two young Russian women. A review of "Personality and Political Attitudes: Relationships across Issue Domains and Political Contexts" by Alan Gerber, Gregory Huber, David Doherty, Conor Dowling, and Shang Ha. Bret McCabe on the towering body of work of Claude Levi-Strauss. From The Advocate, Michelangelo Signorile on the case for outing on all levels: Seen a local antigay politician having a beer at your favorite gay bar? You best speak up about it. The first chapter from Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference by Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper. Ted Rall on seven suggestions for newspapers. For more than a century, prospective Fellows of All Souls, Oxford have had to sit a frightening exam paper that contains no questions and just one word; now it has been dropped — and Harry Mount (failed, 1994) says the college is the poorer for it.
