A review of The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President by Taylor Branch (and more and more and more and more and more). Aquacalypse Now: Daniel Pauly on the end of fish. Alexander Cockburn on when gossip came back and our modern age was born. Brain and behaviour research is increasingly being incorporated into political and policy debate in Britain; it is forcing both left and right to re-examine old assumptions. Project "Gaydar": At MIT, an experiment identifies which students are gay, raising new questions about online privacy. A review of A Constitution of Many Minds: Why the Founding Document Doesn’t Mean What It Meant Before by Cass Sunstein (and an interview with Sunstein on Republic.com 2.0). Glenn Beck says Sunstein wants to give animals the right to sue humans — really? A review of Frankenstein: Icon of Modern Culture by Audrey A. Fisch. On the wrong side of the coin: Oleg Yuriev takes a black tomcat to the crossroads on Christmas Eve to gain new perspectives on the nature of money. Wrong Tomorrow keeps track of predictions of the future by public figures in order to hold people and media outlets accountable for pretending to see into an unpredictable future. Michael Shermer on why people believe in conspiracies. To cry “Sapere aude!” once again: Craig Nelson on Thomas Paine and the magic of engineering. Pajamas Government: Alan Grayson in the blogosphere's man in Congress. Castles of the imagination: From Wales to Syria, fortresses are monuments to an age of chivalry — but some are only castles in the air.
