David K. Levine (WUSTL): Is Behavioral Economics Doomed? From New York, the unbuilding of Frank Gehry: Has New York lost its great chance with an architectural legend?; 89-year-old Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau has set himself one last duty before stepping away: to prevent the brassy Leslie Crocker Snyder from getting his job; the president’s rhetoric has helped make change seem possible in Iran and the Middle East — now comes the hard part; if the Obamas join the Clintons and Caroline Kennedy on Martha's Vineyard this August, they’ll be visiting a vacationland known for its liberal politics and for its self-imposed racial segregation; and forty years after Stonewall, the gay movement has never been more united — so why do older gay men and younger ones often seem so far apart? Famed for its concentration of heavily subsidized 20-something residents — also nicknamed trust-funders or trustafarians — Williamsburg is showing signs of trouble. The Left and the Living Dead: In the event of a zombie apocalypse, will progressive ideals win out? As the zombie archetype is revived in fiction, it comes to symbolise what we dread in the age we live in: conformity, disease and apocalyptic calamity. A round up of stripper memoirs: You’d never guess what you learn from reading them.
