John C. Berg (Suffolk): From Madison to Wall Street: Assessing the Electoral Consequences of Protest on the Left. From Foreign Policy, here is a list of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. The end of evil: Neuroscientists suggest there is no such thing — are they right? The European Union exists in a no-man’s-land between democracy and technocracy: Henry Farrell reviews The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe by David Marquand. The myth of the Fourth Reich: The spectre of history looms over the eurozone crisis and Germany’s role in it, but it has less to do with Nazism than with the traumas and economic woes of the 1920s. The monoculture is a myth: Three TV networks? Music dictated by MTV? Nostalgia for a shared past creates false history — we have it better now. Ladies and gentlemen, this is what a lender of last resort looks like: Felix Salmon on the Morgan Stanley bailout. Matthew Yglesias on how the Fed's generosity made $13 billion for America's biggest banks. Jacques Barzun reviews Why Trilling Matters by Adam Kirsch. The GOP is not without options, but the Democrats are in the driver's seat: Now there are two triggers — one is an extremely progressive spending trigger worth $1.2 trillion that goes off on January 1, 2013, and the other is an extremely progressive tax trigger worth $3.8 trillion that goes off on January 1, 2013. A look at 6 absurd pirate myths everyone believes (thanks to movies).
