Tiger by the tail: The golf legend and symbol of cultural harmony crashes and burns — maybe we're all better off for it. During an international meeting of left parties held in Caracas from 19-21 November, 2009, Hugo Chavez launched a call for a Fifth Socialist International which, according to him, should bring together left parties and social movements. Leon Wieseltier on the best reason to get circumcised. The End of the 2000s: Andy Serwer says goodbye to a decade from Hell. New Scientist profiles P. Z. Myers, mild-mannered scourge of creationists. Fed Up: The political movement to curtail the Federal Reserve goes from fringe to mainstream. From The New Yorker, Jill Lepore on the history of health-care reform. Fighting the wrong health care battle: Liberals in Congress should be ready to trade the public option for provisions that will actually make the health reforms succeed. What Facebook can't give you: Over 52 years, these men have evolved into movers and shakers — together. Pathology and Ideology: An article on Nidal Malik Hasan and the case of Leon Czolgosz. Are phony academic conferences the new Nigerian princes of the internet? An economist's invisible hand: Arthur Cecil Pigou, overlooked for decades, provides a guide to the financial crisis. Present-day soapbox for voices of the past (with a Web site): Lewis H. Lapham, the former editor of Harper’s magazine, takes on a new market and business model with his eponymous journal. The murky moral waters of public referenda: The wisdom of crowds has a tendency to reveal its own prejudices.
