There is a lot of noise in classical music today: Is classical music trying to be fashionable? Technology Review goes inside the launch of Stephen Wolfram's new "computational knowledge engine." Todd Gitlin on journalism's many crises: Circulation, revenue, attention, authority, and deference. Off dead center: Greg Grandin on William Appleman Williams and the tragedy of American diplomacy. An interview with Bill Wasik, author of And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture. The caudillos v. the elites: A look at how the Honduras coup reveals deep divisions in Latin America. Grandfather of the scam: How Ivar Kreuger, a sweet-talking Swedish financier, may have paved the way for Bernard Madoff and other Wall Street crooks. New insights from behavioral economics show that altruism rather than

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