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A new issue of Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics is out. Paul Grimstad (Yale): On Going On: Rules, Inferences and Literary Conditions. James Warner on Dilbert's presidential bid: Is technocracy dressed up as libertarianism the natural political home of the engineer? Stephane Hessel and the handbook of the revolution: The 94-year-old Frenchman's 13-page essay, Time for Outrage, helped to inspire protests movements in Europe and the U.S. From The Current Moment, an interview with Jeff Frieden, co-author of Lost Decades: The Making of America’s Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery; and an interview with Wolfgang Streeck, director of the Max Planck Institue for the Study of Societies. Sasha Issenberg on the 12 kinds of undecided voters:
 Liars, haters, mavens, know-nothings, bandwagon riders, and other kinds of voters who just can’t make up their minds.
 A review of Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies by James Wolcott. What not to think about: There is an opportunity cost to bad ideas — Big Think's editors recommend the stories that are not worth following. From New York, a special issue on Reasons to Love New York 2011. Eighteen years ago, three teenagers in Arkansas were falsely accused of the murders of three young boys; suddenly released this summer, the West Memphis Three are now free to pick up their lives — if they can even find them. Is incest wrong? Tauriq Moosa wonders. Nancy Leys Stepan on her book Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? An interview with William Ian Miller, author of Losing It: In which an Aging Professor laments his shrinking Brain.