From Ethics & International Affairs, a roundtable: "Can Democracies Go It Alone?"; a review of Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity by Will Kymlicka; a review of The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics: Critical Liberalism and the Zapatistas by Courtney Jung; a review of Democracy Across Borders: From Demos to Demoi by James Bohman; and a review of The End of the West? Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order. From Culture, an essay on forgetting the obvious: Relearning old lessons from The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi; and you’ve heard plenty about the financial crisis from the economic and political perspectives — what about the financial crisis as a cultural crisis? The end of universal rationality: An interview with Yochai Benkler, author of The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. Relax, rich people: Obama's budget is now in play in Congress, and critics are crying "socialism", but the new taxes are hardly radical. How does the Internet shape the informal process of discussion–public discourse? Joshua Cohen investigates. From McSweeney's, here are selected personals from the American Psychiatric Association's dating website. From Cracked, here are the true stories behind 5 famous WTF images. Here are 20 things you didn't know about time.
