Eoin Carolan (UCD): Postcards from the Economic Abyss: What Ireland and Iceland Can Teach Us About Tea Parties, Big Societies and Small Government. Rick Perry has three strikes against him: Pay-to-play cronyism; roughshod, right-wing politics; and oops, read on. Why some people say "sorry" before others: Certain character traits influence people's willingness to apologize. Who’s winning the abortion war? A year of GOP overreaching has created surprising pro-choice victories — but now the real battle is on its way. When you’ve long been identified as a “literary type,” how can it be that receiving books as get-well gifts leaves you feeling empty, angry, and determined to chug YouTube straight? A review of Books: A Living History by Maria Popova. Unmasking the myths of anti-multiculturalism: If society depicts immigration and immigrants as worthless and useless for the economy, these enemy images will lead to a hostile attitude towards all newcomers. Correlation or Causation: Need to prove something you already believe? Statistics are easy — all you need are two graphs and a leading question. Freakonomics, what went wrong? Examination of a very popular popular-statistics series reveals avoidable errors. Obama’s intellectuals: Is it possible that the people who run the Obama administration aren’t as smart as we’ve been led to believe? No sooner does disaster strike than the gloating begins; Scott McLemee interviews a scholar who tracks online trolls. David Warsh on how business schools got to be the way they are. Occupy goes to Washington, finding politics is complicated. From Butterflies and Wheels, Andrew J Taggart on public philosophy and our spiritual predicament. An interview with Robert Trivers, author of The Folly of Fools.
