Glenita Amoranto and Natalie Chun (ADB) and Anil B. Deolalikar (UC-Riverside): Who Are the Middle Class and What Values do They Hold? Evidence from the World Values Survey. Ms. Civil Society v. Mr. Unaccountable: How ten years after 9/11 Occupy Wall Street may signify a return to a civil society. Jonah Berger and Baba Shiv are interested in our so-called “drive for distinctiveness” that urge we all feel to not be like everyone else — but how real is this drive? Rise of the Machines: Why we keep coming back to H.G. Wells' visions of a dystopian future. Barack Obama learned a political trick from Muhammad Ali called Rope a Dope — so why aren't progressives celebrating? The story of our holy Constitution: An excerpt from A Tea People's History by Alex Pareene. What happened to the X-rating? Laura Turner Garrison wants to know. Herbert Gintis likes The Soros Lectures: At the Central European University, from "perhaps our only modern public intellectual". Jeff Nilsson on the ad that launched a revolution. From TLS, a review essay on children in the Roman Empire. We are at a dangerous point where commodity worker output can easily exceed the demand for labor. A review of Cultivating Conscience: How Good Laws Make Good People by Lynn Stout. A terrible new drug seduces a generation: They don’t call it being “sent to Siberia” for nothing. David Remnick is arguably the most powerful editor in the world, yet shies away from publicity; Nicholson Baker takes lunch with the man who has returned The New Yorker to its glory days. Alexander Del Mar's view on the origins of money were revolutionary for the 19th century — why have so few people heard of him? A review of The Things that Nobody Knows: 501 Mysteries of Life, the Universe and Everything by William Hartston.
