From Slate, investigate the investigators: Let's look into these unpatriotic Americans who want to prosecute patriotic Americans; why hasn't America been attacked since 9/11, and did Bush administration policies prevent 9/11 from happening again? Timothy Noah on the He-Kept-Us-Safe Theory. An article on France's strange love affair with William Faulkner. From Capitalism, Jared Seehafer on the Republican Party's identity crisis: Jesus Christ or John Galt? (and a response). An interview with The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert on reporting on climate change (and top 10 myths about sustainability). An article on Benoit Mandelbrot and the wildness of financial markets. Girls, power and mamma: How Silvio Berlusconi became Italy's Superman. Rather than face punishment, credit raters are positioned to profit from the financial mess they helped create. Is the global economic crisis going to lead to another world war? Cracking up: State legislators across the country are filing resolutions declaring state sovereignty just as they did the last time a Democrat won the White House. A review of Mary C. Brennan's Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace: Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism. From ResetDoc, an interview with Michael Kazin on the duties of the opposition; and Nadia Urbinati on how dissent reveals a fundamental loyalty to a country, a society or a community.
