A new issue of Regulation is out. Benjamin Hansen (Oregon) and Gregory J. DeAngelo (RPI): Life and Death in the Fast Lane: Police Enforcement and Traffic Fatalities. Yemima Ben-Menahem (HUJ): The Causal Family: The Place of Causality in Science. Frances Fox Piven, the professor Glenn Beck loves to hate, speaks with Cornel West on how the radical right helped her define her politics and why she’s gloomy about America’s future. An excerpt from Glenn Greenwald's With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful (and more). Which side are they on? How cops really feel about the Occupy Wall Street protests. Rightbloggers get behind Newt Gingrich, this month's next President of the United States. Battle of the historians: Niall Ferguson and Pankaj Mishra are having a spat — is it time for them to step outside and settle it once and for all? The Ask Me Anything session with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was so illuminating and inspiring that it's already prompted talk of a monthly series. The Anthropologists’ Hour: David Warsh on David Graeber. What if academics were as dumb as quacks with statistics? From Monthly Review, Samir Amin on the democratic fraud and the universalist alternative; and John Bellamy Foster on Samir Amin at 80: An introduction and tribute. How not to be a dogmatic fundamentalist: It's not how strong our views are, or how vigorously we defend them, but how open we are to others changing our mind. A review of History in the Discursive Condition: Reconsidering the Tools of Thought by Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth. X-Men ethics class: Why help the weak if it thwarts evolution? A study reveals why Dems and Republicans like different films — and which actors each side absolutely refuses to pay to see.
