Randall Morck (Alberta) and Bernard Yin Yeung (NYU): Corporatism and the Ghost of the Third Way. From TNR, which languages should liberal arts be about in 2010? John McWhorter wonders. A radical new idea: what if we tested laws before passing them? For the first time since World War II, German combat troops are being stationed in France. Most observers agree that the Cancun deal is a tremendous achievement for UN climate process. “The” unbearable “whiteness” of “science”: How would you feel as a chemist if professional meetings were dominated by alchemists? (and more) You might call it a policy of don’t bark, don’t smell: U.S. soldiers and Marines are smuggling dogs and cats onto bases across Afghanistan. Now that literary journalism is all but gone from magazines, many writers are choosing to walk a perilous tightrope to books — good luck with that. The jihadists want to destroy all that is good about America, but, frankly, the Catholic League may beat them to it. The joyless or the jobless: Should governments pursue happiness rather than economic growth? One of the most curious intellectual developments of the past decade has been that quantitative social scientists — economists and psychologists, most especially — have become philosophers of happiness. Philosophers are the smartest humanists, physicists the smartest scientists, economists the smartest social scientists.
