From Discover, an article on the beautiful mind of Freeman Dyson. From First Principles, what is an appropriate curriculum for our students? China's SAT: If the SAT lasted two days, covered everything you'd ever studied, and decided your future. How about a cap-and-trade dividend? Robert Reich wants to know. Can Wal-Mart save local newspapers? Craigslist, take note: It takes one monolithic villain to beat another. Some argue that it's time to legally recognize the bond of friendship so that some of the rights and privileges restricted to family would be given to friends. Breaking news: Life as a poet not lucrative!!! From Standpoint, an interview with Jung Chang and Jon Halliday and Simon Sebag Montefiore on the two communist dictators who were responsible for up to 100 million deaths. An article on the history of vibrators. Despite popular myth, anti-Americanism in Europe isn’t on the rise. What statistics don't tell us: The bad news about the good news about terrorism. Rick Perlstein reviews The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s by G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert S. Weisbrot. Under George Bush, red states were red and blue states were blue; this year the map could be drenched in purple. The best poverty-fighting bet: The Google IPO event of the nonprofit world. A review of The Hamburger: A History by Josh Ozersky (and more and more).
