From Daedalus, a special issue on the financial crisis and economic policy, including an introduction by Benjamin M. Friedman and Robert M. Solow, Luigi Zingales (Chicago): Learning to Live with Not-so-efficient Markets; Barry Eichengreen (UC-Berkeley): International Financial Regulation After the Crisis; Peter Temin (MIT): The Great Recession and the Great Depression; and Robert Hall (Stanford): Fiscal Stimulus. From Cato Unbound, Bruce Cain on the case for semi-disclosure of electoral contributions. Every day something of significance occurs, but nothing remarkable had happened on April 11, 1954, the most uneventful and boring day of the 20th century. Why do we call it 9/11? Rodney Clapp wants to know. Brad DeLong on the Four Horsemen of the Teapocalypse: Meet the dead thinkers who defined 2010. From Ctheory, an interview with Annalee Newitz, editor-in-chief of io9.com ("Annalee Newitz leads a life your average geek dreams about"), on the relationship between science and the humanities, "high" culture and "low" culture, and about what makes the future so interesting. The Essential Guide to Male Muses: From teen heartthrobs to English dandies, these 25 guys prove that inspiration is gender-blind. Elvin Lim on why racial profiling is like affirmative action. Christopher Hitchens is in search of the Washington novel: A colorful genre awaits its masterpiece.
