A new issue of Griffith Review is out. Ariel Alvarez (Montclair State): The Constitutionality of the Inevitable Regulations of All Tax Return Preparers. Nancy Fraser on how feminism became capitalism's handmaiden and how to reclaim it: A movement that started out as a critique of capitalist exploitation ended up contributing key ideas to its latest neoliberal phase. From Archeology, Eric A. Powell on telling tales in Proto-Indo-European. Steve Kolenberg on 5 dumb myths about prehistoric times that everyone believes. Marc Tracy interviews National Review's Robert Costa on dominating shutdown coverage: “I’m not on the conservative team”. Matt Welch interviews Jeremy Scahill author of Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield. Here’s why you really don’t want a strip club next door: A new spatial analysis of sexually oriented businesses finds crime is indeed higher in their wake. Ezra Klein on five thoughts on the Obamacare disaster. Brad DeLong wants to turn the Nobel Prize in Economics into an opportunity to advance the ball with respect to public knowledge of the financial sector and how it works in the economy — but it won’t happen. Charlie Jane Anders on 10 myths about science fiction (and why they matter). Impeach Obama: Hendrik Hertzberg on the G.O.P. insurrection. Joel Heller on Shelby County and the end of history. Can America survive parliamentary norms in a presidential system? The Furies Never End: Amid the government shutdown, pundits have expressed great shock at the radical nature of these new “upstart” Republicans — even though their cause, tactics, and influence are as old as American history itself.
