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The measured rise

Simon Springer (Victoria): Postneoliberalism? From Portal, a special issue on Imagined Transcultural Histories and Geographies. How to win at forecasting: A conversation with Philip Tetlock. The other shooter: Alex Pasternack on the saddest and most expensive 26 seconds of amateur film ever made. Does “statistical significance” imply “actually significant”? Steve Early reviews Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting For the Labor Movement by Jane McAlevey. The heiress: Ken Auletta on the measured rise of Elisabeth Murdoch. Tracy Clark-Flory interviews Leigh Ann Wheeler, author of How Sex Became a Civil Liberty. What business can learn from Occupy Wall Street: Insubordination can be a managerial virtue, argues James C. Scott in Two Cheers for Anarchism. Maria Popova on a visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction. Tara Brabazon reviews Cultures of Mediatization by Andreas Hepp. Is the death of newspapers the end of good citizenship? The UFC turned a once-illegal blood sport into prime-time entertainment — but before it fully capitalizes, it has some battles left to fight.