A new issue of Amsterdam Law Forum is out. Susannah Camic (Wisconsin): Everything is Tax. Elitism in online dictionaries: Free dictionaries on the internet are often bland and incomplete, while those that are complex and exhaustive require a credit card — quality comes at a price. If you think Mitt Romney is too mild, too "golly gee," too Mormon, to survive the shark tank of a modern presidential campaign, his answer is Eric Fehrnstrom. From From n+1, of the 5 million books held at the New York Public Library’s main building, only about 300,000 were requested last year; that means that the rest of them just sat around, taking up space in one of the most prized neighborhoods on the planet. Osama Bin Laden’s papers show he wished Obama would continue Bush’s “war on terror” (and more). From The Washington Monthly, predatory lending still poses a systemic risk to the economy; will Obama's new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau succeed in taming it, or will the agency be strangled in its crib? Mark Judge, now at RealClearBooks, is something of a book snob, but dislikes a lot of people who identify themselves as book fanatics.
