Beyond the Skin Trade: How does black nationalism stay relevant in the age of Barack Obama? 50 years of stupid grammar advice: A look at why The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates (and more and more and more and more). Lingo and then some: Would a master thesaurus contain the history of human perception? From The Morning News, a look at your favorite thing about the recession. Do-It-Yourself Governance: Without new social movements, there will be no new New Deal. Too big to save: Saskia Sassen on the end of financial capitalism. There is one particular type of bad argument that has always existed, but it has now spread like tar over the world-wide web, and is seeping into the pubs, coffee shops and opinion columns everywhere. A review of Naive Decision Making: Mathematics Applied to the Social World by T. W. Korner. From JASSS, a review of Reason and Rationality by Jon Elster; a review of Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World by Alex Pentland; a review of Artificial Psychology: The Quest for What It Means to Be Human by Jay Friedenberg. A review of Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding. A review of The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime by Nicole Rafter.
