The inaugural issue of European Political Science Review is now free online. At the Oxford Literary Festival, George Orwell's son speaks for the first time about his father. A review of Explaining Altruism: A Simulation-Based Approach and its Limits by Eckhart Arnold. Was the banking crisis caused by unregulated emotions? Harriet Swain talks to Peter Totterdell. A review of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street by William D. Cohan (and more and more and more and more and more and more and an excerpt). Dani Rodrik on blaming economists, not economics. From Salon, just how bad off is the Republican Party? A state-by-state look at the state of the Grand Old Party in the Age of Steele (and part 2). Forget the GOP; Obama's enemy is the angry public. Populism isn't the weasel — in fact, it's an entirely appropriate reaction to elite decisions that have run our economy into the ground. From Fri Tanke, Julian Baggini on why the New Atheist movement is destructive (and a reply). All God's children: The Quiverfull movement saddles women with a life of submission and near-constant pregnancies (and more). Stocks, homes, now triple-word scores: Scrabble and other games on boards, fields, courts and ice have overvalued points (and more). Gigi Anders has been waiting for Fidel Castro to die since one of his guerrillas tried to seize her beautiful new red trike on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 1960.
