From The Futurist, a special issue on how "wild cards" may reshape our future. From Small Wars Journal, professors in the trenches: A series on deployed soldiers and social science academics (and part 2, part 3, part 4 and part 5). A review of Political Tourism and Its Texts: Cultural Spaces by Maureen Moynagh. An article on bombing civilians as an American tradition. TAP compares the "enhanced interrogation" memos to Red Cross accounts of what happened. Predictably irrational: Why bankers would rather work for $0.00 than $500K. From FT, Edmund Phelps on how uncertainty bedevils the best system; and John Kay on how history vindicates the science of muddling through. The prophets of doom: Meet the Cassandras, 14 economists, bloggers, politicians and businesspeople of all political stripes who have become the most strident critics of President Obama's stewardship of the economy. Cass Sunstein is in praise of "trimming". Journalism’s Savior: Why Steven Brill believes his new company can save American media. Jack Shafer on the Great Newspaper Crackup of 1918 — and what to learn from it. Save Us, Sarah Palin: Is Obama weak on aliens and aliens? From Esquire, Todd Palin is the man for America now. Comic Sans, a typeface inspired by comic books, has become a font of ill will.
