A new issue of Judgment and Decision Making is out. Yong-yue Yu and Jian Li (Wuhan): The Ideological and Political Education Values of the Constructive Postmodernism. From NYRB, where is poetry going? Charles Simic wants to know; and can Congress force us to buy broccoli? David Cole investigates. From OK Cupid, what are the best questions for a first date? Inside the Secret Service: Granted exclusive access, Marc Ambinder follows the agency on one of its toughest assignments. Are Thailand and Cambodia about to go to war? Jonathan Cohn on the bad faith of mandate critics (and part 2). Farhad Manjoo on HuffPo's Achilles' Heel: Search engine optimization won't work forever (and more). Jason Linkins on how The Huffington Post works (in case you were wondering). Dana Milbank on Arianna Huffington's ideological transformation. Now what? No one, perhaps not even officers of the Egyptian armed forces, knows what the Egyptian armed forces will do next. David A. Bell on why we can't rule out an Egyptian Reign of Terror: A historian's look at revolution and its discontents. What is the Muslim Brotherhood, and will it take over Egypt? The basics on the group that has Glenn Beck going batshit. From The Examined Life, Amanda Ruud on Marilynne Robinson and the courage to see. Christian Jarrett examines the relevance of the idea of sin to modern life, and introduces a special "sin week". Taxes too high? Actually, as a share of the nation's economy, Uncle Sam's take this year will be the lowest since 1950. Now that Ron Paul actually has some power over the Fed, what is he going to do with it? The Art of Scouting Models: Jeff and Mary Clarke of Mother Model Management help transport young, beautiful people from obscurity to the fashion runways of New York and Paris.
