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Caught on tape

A new issue of World War 4 Report is out. Bernard Harcourt (Chicago): Fantasies and Illusions: On Liberty, Order, and Free Market. John M. Kang (St. Thomas): Hustler V. Falwell: Worst Case in the History of the World, Maybe the Universe. Why does Wall Street hate Obama? Naivete. The scam Wall Street learned from the Mafia: How America's biggest banks took part in a nationwide bid-rigging conspiracy — until they were caught on tape. The May 2012 issue of American Ethnologist has three open-access articles focused on the Occupy movement. The Chronicle profiles David F. Skrbina, the Unabomber's pen pal. Never ending story: Helen Bamber has been listening to the victims of torture, cruelty and genocide for more than 60 years, but she retains her faith in humanity. From BBC Magazine, why do autocrats do strange things? Wyatt Kash on when government gets things right. David Horowitz is homeless: The 1960s radical decades ago switched his politics, fleeing the New Left to become a conservative provocateur — then the right wing left him behind.