Richard Avramenko (Wisconsin) and Richard Boyd (Georgetown): Subprime Virtues: The Moral Dimensions of American Housing and Mortgage Policy. Daniel Altman on the United Petrostates of America: Ordinary Americans are about to find out why they call it the “resource curse”. I know what The Shining is really about: A new documentary, Room 237, explores the many meanings that obsessive fans of The Shining have extracted from Kubrick’s film. Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, is just getting started. The ache for immortality: The Voyager probes speed on with their messages of humility and greatness, strange memorials to a spacefaring age. Want to find aliens? Look for their detritus. Christian Pearce reviews Arming and Disarming: A History of Gun Control in Canada by R. Blake Brown. A Burmese neo-Nazi movement is rising against Muslims.
