From Vanity Fair, a look at the Mystery Suicides of Bridgend County. Fatal distraction: Forgetting a child in the back seat of a hot, parked car is a horrifying, inexcusable mistake — but is it a crime? From Reason, an interview with David Hillman, author of The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization; and can Christiania survive? A countercultural enclave in Denmark fights for its life. From Triple Canopy, here's evidence of a postindustrial disassembly line, performed live with a drill, mirrored plates, construction lights, and sheer distortion. Deceiver in Chief: Left-leaning columnist Kevin Field regrets his vote for President Obama. Greil Marcus reviews Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead. An article on the rational underpinnings of irrational anger. The call of the toad: Gunter Grass's 1990 diary has just been published' former East German writer Monika Maron looks at how blinded Grass was by his own preconceptions. Racism can be funny, and more importantly, political correctness has no place in the arts. Thomas Frank on conservatives and their pity parties; why the GOP fetish for outsourcing deserved to be repudiated; and why the "populists" are right about Wall Street. A review of John Milton. Life, Work, and Thought by Gordon Campbell and Thomas N. Corns. Two economists propose a simple system for deciding who gets to run the world — how about Bangladesh?
