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Making noise for its own sake

Ruben Enikolopov (NES): Are Bureaucrats Really Paid Like Bureaucrats? Marvin Eli Kirsh (CSU-LA): A Live Wire: Machismo of a Distant Surface. From Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies, a special issue on the political economy of ideas. If it bleeds, it leads: Why it took police violence to make the media notice "Occupy Wall Street". Follow no leader: As the demonstrations on Wall Street this past weekend showed, there's a big difference between protesting for a purpose and making noise for its own sake. Making sense of the world: A review of Pattern Theory: The Stochastic Analysis of Real-World Signals by David Mumford and Agnes Desolneux. Colin Woodward on the history of torture and why we can't give it up. When the rapist is a she: A child support case brings to light a man's rape accusation against his high school girlfriend. A review of Breaking up Time: Settling the Borders between the Present, the Past and the Future. The Moocher's Credo: Deconstructing Elizabeth Warren's ode to crab antics that has made her an instant celebrity. Herbert Gintis approves of The Five Thousand Year Leap: Twenty-Eight Great Ideas That Are Changing the World by Willard Cleon Skousen, rabid John Birch Society anti-Communist and much more; and a review of Jurgen Habermas' The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: "If you like this, you will love root canal work". Max Blumenthal on how an obscure conservative memo reveals the creeping Islamophobic threat to democracy. Frank Rich writes in praise of extremism: What good did bipartisanship ever do anybody? A look at how novelists predict the future with eerie accuracy. Welcome to the Gig Life: The boom in independent work is changing the way we think about jobs and careers.