Christian Welzel (Jacobs) and Ronald Inglehart (Michigan): The Role of Ordinary People in Democratization. From Fortune, the most wanted man on the planet: Fired as chief of Viacom, Tom Freston took off on a nonstop global adventure. Now he's helping Oprah to start a new TV network and Bono to save the world; and these days, online services and applications are sexy; hardware? Not so much. A review of Post-Foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau by Oliver Marchart. A review of Alain Badiou's The Meaning of Sarkozy. A review of Exploitation and Developing Countries: The Ethics of Clinical Research. An Opec for gas? An article on Russia, Ukraine and the complex politics of natural gas pipelines. A review of The Euro: The Politics of the New Global Currency by David Marsh. An interview with Richard Lingeman on The Nation: Guide to the Nation. Isn't it ironic? An article on hipsters and the emergence of altporn. From JASSS, a review of books on neuroeconomics. Are you a profound thinker or merely a clever-clogs? Jonathan Wolff on self and text. Magazine Rack reviews Reader's Digest, Men's Journal, Swindle, Ode, Preservation, Singular, Playboy, and Inked. From Miller-McCune, research finds some recovered memories are more reliable than others; and what are American schools doing right?
