Elizabeth Broun (Smithsonian): Are Artists “Workers”? From The Hedgehog Review, Peter N. Stearns on Anger Management, American-Style: A Work in Progress; and Eva Illouz on Love and Its Discontents: Irony, Reason, Romance. Margaret Atwood is in the Twittersphere. Michelle Goldberg on how Ellen Willis' cultural libertarianism allowed her to navigate the feminist sex wars of the 1980s with a grace and good sense that still stands up. A Wall Street Cheat Sheet: Distracted by health care, lost when it comes to the economy? Here's what you need to know about financial regulatory reform. 10 years later, David Foster Wallace is a journalism pioneer. Hip hop religion, spiritual sampling, and race in a "post-racial" age: A review of The Tao of Wu by RZA. What's a superhero and why does a psychologist care? An interview with Khoi Vinh, Design Director for NYTimes.com. From Mediaite, here is the case for nightly broadcast news and what’s wrong with cable news; and Big Hollywood wants to know: When will the institutional Left stop trying to censor Lady Gaga? The Temple of Do: How 50,000 Hindu pilgrims keep Lady Gaga looking hot. The introduction to Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome, ed. Victor Davis Hanson. A review of Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean by Edward Kritzler. Wesley Snipes is ready to pay: The star faces three years in jail, and Chris Heath tries to make sense of it all. From BigThink, an interview with Benoit Mandelbrot. Stumbling upon Shannon Rankin’s map art should make you glad there’s still a use for quickly outdated old-school road maps. From TONY, an interview with Salman Rushdie, chair of the Sixth Annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature. The U.S.-Russian arms treaty may not be big news, but it's good news.
