Fantasy
City Journal reviews End This Depression Now! by Paul Krugman.
Apocalypse
The Apocalypse Is Nigh—So Laugh It Up? by Thomas Hibbs. Can the end of the world be funny? What about divine punishment? Judging by the recent spate of movies by Steve Carell, Jim Carrey and others, Hollywood certainly seems to [...]
Lousy Forecasters
Political Scientists Are Lousy Forecasters by Jacqueline Stevens. Desperate “Action Alerts” land in my in-box. They’re from the American Political Science Association and colleagues, many of whom fear grave “threats” to our discipline. As a defense, they’ve supplied “talking points” [...]
Chimps
Egypt: A Muslim Brotherhood President Does Not Prove That We Are All ‘Chimps’ by Barry Rubin. Muhammad al-Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, has become president of Egypt. But what does it mean to be president of Egypt? That’s the current [...]