Michal Barton (Palacky) and Pavel Mates (Western Bohemia): Public Versus Private Interest: Can the Boundaries Be Legally Defined? From Foreign Policy, a special series on Big Oil. Inside the drone missions to Fukushima: The Honeywell T-Hawk, an 18-pound flying machine, was used to explore the disaster site at Japan's devastated nuclear power plant. Melissa Harris-Perry on Cornel West v. Barack Obama. Italian-American food and the legacy of Chef Boyardee: America's long, rich legacy of red-sauce Italian cooking, from real-life food entrepreneur Hector Boiardi to Mario Batali. The Neurocritic on Simon Baron-Cohen, empathy, and the atrocities in Afghanistan. Rolf Potts interviews Paul Theroux, author of The Tao of Travel. Welfare-queen states: The red states plunge us into the slough of dependency. Dude, where's my magazine? They’re dudes, they’re editors — ladies and dudes, meet the Dude-itors. How does one explain the difference between poetry and prose? Vincent Czyz begins his essay on the subject by considering Ikea's arrival in New Rochelle, New York. Ramesh Ponnuru reviews Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism by Stanley Kurtz and The Roots of Obama’s Rage by Dinesh D’Souza. Stats geek Bill James applies his science to serial killers. An oral history of the Playboy Clubs: Bruce Handy hears from Hef, his execs, and a hutchful of former Bunnies about the rise and fall (and rise?) of the nightlife empire that spawned an all-American sex symbol. A review of Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail and Why We Believe Them Anyway by Dan Gardner. Fear Itself: A one-in-a-million risk may not be imaginary, but it's pretty damned close to it. Bad Credit: Kai Wright on how payday lenders evade regulation. For collective fight against capitalism: An interview with Angela Davis, U.S. civil rights activist.
