From Vice, Trevor Snapp on the New Libyans: Knee-deep in the shit with Benghazi’s unlikely rebels; and Big Muammar's House: Gaddafi loves hosting babes at his bachelor pad. Why escalators bring out the best in people. Jonathan Cohn on the five scariest things in the Republican budget you haven't heard about. Las Vegas bets on Celine Dion for its recovery. Westerners might get a bit queasy when they think about eating locusts, spiders or ants, but they make up delicacies and key sources of protein in much of the world. Rick Perlstein goes inside the GOP's fact-free nation: How political lying became normal. David Bentley Hart on the trouble with Ayn Rand: Civilization teeters on the brink — they’ve made a movie of Atlas Shrugged. Jeffrey Goldberg’s reporting from the Middle East has garnered a slew of awards and an invitation to come and chat with Fidel Castro — just don’t tell his kids he dropped out of Penn. Jason Collins on evolution and irrationality. Still don’t understand what happens if Congress doesn’t raise the debt ceiling? Carlos Lozada reads Andrew Breitbart’s Righteous Indignation so you don't have to. What do content farms say about what we care about? Nice day for a revolution: David Harvey on why May Day should be a date to stand up and change the system. Are we moving beyond the welfare state? David Frum examines a new vision of radical reductions in government’s social insurance function. To the barricades: Revolutionary potential is only limited by our imagination. This is the age of aquariums: Young men are paying a fortune to “aqua-scape” their indoor fish tanks and parting with up to £250,000 for a single fish — why? The Public Intellectual is a publication where academics can offer their expert analysis of pressing social problems in an accessible journalistic style.
