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The inaugural issue of the Journal of Civic Literacy is out, including Justice David Souter on civic literacy; James A. Duplass (USF): Ideology: The Challenge for Civic Literacy Educators; and Steve Sanders reviews Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter by Ilya Somin. The language is mostly spoken by Orthodox Jews who want to set themselves apart from the modern world — is there a future for Yiddish in other communities? Citizenship, nationality, borders are ways of controlling the mobility of the poor whilst the rich pass effortlessly through; it isn’t simply an alternative or competitor to class, it is also a way in which states enforce class-based inequality. Defying Soviets, then pulling Hungary to Putin: Viktor Orban steers Hungary toward Russia 25 years after fall of the Berlin Wall. Simon Wren-Lewis on where macroeconomics went wrong. Neil Irwin on how a $90 million condo flip shows what’s wrong with financial capitalism. This 1856 law makes it legal to seize islands for America if they have lots of bird crap. Men have depended on the government for centuries — so why shouldn't women do the same? The Pirate Party’s push for direct democracy: Leaders of a new movement say we now have the technology for government that is literally by the people — what could possibly go wrong? George Scialabba reviews The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left by Yuval Levin. Does money buy better politicians? Boston’s City Councilors wants to give themselves a raise — and some experts say they’ve got the right idea. Toward a genealogy of the US colonial present: The introduction to Formations of United States Colonialism, ed. Alyosha Goldstein.