Julian Davis Mortenson (Michigan): Executive Power and the Discipline of History. Sarah Tran (SMU): Expediting Innovation: The Quest for a New Sputnik Moment. Intersex adventure: An interview with Phoebe Hart. Harvard University will re-establish ROTC presence on campus. It’s time to face the fiscal illusion: Americans need to stop fooling themselves about the government’s huge debt burdens. LSE director Howard Davies resigns after fresh allegations over links to Libyan regime as PR firm admits errors over lobbying. From Libya with love: A look at how US consulting firm Monitor Group used American academics to rehab Muammar Qaddafi’s image (and more by Todd Gitlin). A review of Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control by James Rodger Fleming. Sociological grounds for teleology: Timothy Stacey on terror and liberalism. Dangerous ideas: Dorion Sagan on memes and the New Orwellianism. The force with no name: It’s not a website and it’s not an organization, even though it may have 10,000 members — but it may be changing the world. Not so Candid Camera: Why conservatives are having mixed luck getting video of angry, violent liberals.The Battle for Wisconsin: What is at stake may be the very survival of American unionism itself. Inside Labor's Epic Battle in Wisconsin: How big labor and progressive groups pulled off the biggest protests in 40 years. A French court finds in favor of editor accused of libel over book review. What makes luxury condoms so luxurious? Follow my leader: A group’s “intelligence” depends in part on its members’ ignorance. When did ignorance become a point of view? Edwin S. Fruehwald on postmodern legal thought and behavioral biology. An interview with Grzegorz W. Kolodko, author of Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World.
