From Commentary, an article on the Jewish State and its Arabs: Can an angry, alienated, and growing minority be accommodated without dismantling the rule of the majority? The year in maps: A cartography boom offers new ways to see the world. From The Economist, easy as 1, 2, 3: People come into the world ready to count its wonders; and a look at when 1, 2, 3 is not enough: Arguments over what counts as a number. An interview with |http://www.alternet.org/rights/114994/seymour_hersh:_"after911webecameadifferentcountry"/|Seymour Hersh|: "After 9/11 we became a different country". Why don't librarians make good detectives? It's all to do with melting in with a crowd. Twins may appear to be cut from the same cloth, but their genes reveal a different pattern. Michael Lewis and David Einhorn on The End of the Financial World as We Know It and How to Repair a Broken Financial World (and more on Panic). A modest blogging proposal: If "pay per post" lets online writers shill for cash, why not go all the way and sell real-life opinions, too? A review of Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff by Fred Pearce. More on The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath by Robert J. Samuelson. CQ profiles Henry Waxman, savvy operator with new power base. Men like Bernie Madoff understand wealth, they understand power — and they prefer to keep women away from both. Everybody does it: Who has a closet without a skeleton?
