From Vanity Fair, over hot dogs in Central Park, Eliot Spitzer greets his former constituents and chews on questions of sin, survival, and second acts; and Joseph Stiglitz on Wall Street’s toxic message: Disillusioned developing nations may well turn their backs on the free market, posing new threats to global stability and U.S. security. Whatever happened to the Left? Capitalism is facing its worst crisis in 70 years, yet the political movement that prides itself on its critique of the economic status quo is missing in inaction. How the left lost its language: The global crisis exposed the intellectual hollowness of our politics; despite signs of renewal, there’s still a long way to go. A very peculiar practice: Such is the pressure to write that academics have no time to read the flood of published work. A review

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