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Comic relief for desperate times

Edward J. McCaffery (USC) and James R. Hines Jr. (Michigan): The Last Best Hope for Progressivity in Tax. From Cato Unbound, Peter Thiel on the Education of a Libertarian. From Miller-McCune, liberals and conservatives conceive of morality in decidedly different ways; Jonathan Haidt has mapped out their competing ethical universes in hopes they can learn to peacefully coexist; and a review of Robert Faulkner and Susan Shell's America at Risk: Threats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty. A review of Where Have All the Liberals Gone: Race, Class, and Ideals in America by James R. Flynn. From Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi on The Class Clowns: Once the masters of evil politics, Republicans have been reduced to half-assed buffoonery, providing comic relief for desperate times. The most dangerous novel in America: An interview with James Wesley Rawles, author of Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse. Alan Wolfe reviews Reza Aslan's How To Win a Cosmic War. Here's Ken Wilber's take on saving the world through cross-cultural communication. From The New Yorker, a review of Geoff Dyer' s Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi (and an interview at Bookforum). From Portfolio, a rare glimpse behind the green velvet curtain of the most exclusive club in golf, Augusta National.