Cynthia Lee (GWU): Making Race Salient: Trayvon Martin and Implicit Bias in a Not Yet Post-Racial Society. From HiLobrow, a 25-part series in which editor Joshua Glenn, who from 1990–93 published the zine Luvboat Earth and from 1992–2001 published the zine/journal Hermenaut, bids a fond farewell to his noteworthy collection of zines, which he recently donated to the University of Iowa Library’s zine and amateur press collection. Can government play Moneyball? John Bridgeland and Peter Orszag on how a new era of fiscal scarcity could make Washington work better (and a response). Manuel Garcia on how Tony Judt's 20th century history books explain the political and economic exclusion that prompted Edward Snowden. When privacy jumped the shark: Americans are too busy sharing personal information to care if the government is listening in — it might even flatter them. Hart Williams on the treasonous shame of Forbes magazine. From Prospect, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins on Raymond Aron, 30 years on. What explains the Republican Party’s intransigence? Jamelle Bouie investigates. Laura D’Andrea Tyson on the myriad benefits of a carbon tax. My Weekend at Adolf’s: Vegas Tenold on a weekend of mysterious rendezvous, pizza, Sieg Heils and bloody heads with America's Nazi party. Would smell as sweet: Frank Jacobs on geo-popularity of given names.
