From Seed, the damnedest lies: The success of fivethirtyeight.com is a credit not only to statistical prowess but also to keen intuition about social habits; and how can evolution explain both the appeal and recent failings of negative campaigning? McJustice: Jeffrey Rosen on liberals' long-feared judicial apocalypse is nigh. From Reason, have libertarians been driven out of the GOP? A review of Taking on the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. More on The Numerati by Stephen Baker. Was Pope Pius a moral coward or a saint? One year after re-introducing the Tridentine Mass and two years after the Regensburg address, Benedict XVI's popular new traditionalism has re-ignited the Catholic culture wars. The introduction to A Modern Legal Ethics: Adversary Advocacy in a Democratic Age by Daniel Markovits. I swear I am a patriot: Academics should be paying close attention to the political debates about loyalty to the United States. Jonathan Yardley reviews In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography by John Gartner. The introduction to Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage by Kenneth S. Deffeyes. A review of Belching out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola by Mark Thomas. From The Guardian, a look at ten of the best fake deaths. Man's BFF: An article on cloning dogs for love and profit.
