Harvard’s Ben Olken, 32, studies the economics of bribery and assassination in developing nations. Juan Cole on Barack Hussein Obama, Omar Bradley, Benjamin Franklin and other Semitically-named American heroes. James Surowiecki on the trouble with homes. A review of The Supreme Court: An Essential History by Peter Charles Hoffer. On YouTube, nothing's too banal; the website is awash in video, few interesting. A review of On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman. From City Journal, Christopher Hitchens on prisoner of shelves. From Psychology Today, an interview with Karim Rashid, author of Design Your Self. An interview with the Institute for Justice's Chip Mellor on campaign-finance reform, eminent-domain abuse, and licensing laws gone wild. A review

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