Natasha Tusikov (ANU): The Godfather is Dead: A Hybrid Model of Organized Crime. The first chapter from Party Competition: An Agent-Based Model by Michael Laver and Ernest Sergenti. Jonathan Chait on how Ron Paul's libertarian principles support racism. Geography and science fiction: Martin W. Lewis on the creation of realistic alternative worlds. The handful of white people who choose your presidential candidates: Iowa and New Hampshire voters are supposedly better informed — they aren’t. What women want: An article on porn and the frontier of female sexuality. Nobody understands debt: Paul Krugman on how the obsession with deficit reduction is wrongheaded and ill-informed. Privatization nightmare: An article on 5 public services that should never be handed over to greedy corporations. An excerpt of Jeffrey Clement's Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It). Sasha Issenberg on the secret weapon of modern political campaigns: The mail. American Oracle: Jackson Lears on the uses and abuses of Reinhold Niebuhr (and more and more). 10 fun facts about the Top 1 Percent: They're highly educated, skew Republican, and look up at the Top Tenth of the Top 1 Percent with envy. A book salon on Republic, Lost: A Declaration for Independence by Lawrence Lessig (and more and more). Profile as promise: A framework for conceptualizing veracity in online dating self-presentations. How do you explain Gene Weingarten? He’s juvenile and more than a little crazy, friends say he barely copes with day-to-day life — he also happens to be one hell of a writer. A look at 5 old-timey prejudices that still show up in every movie.
