Politics

• Bruce Bartlett, For Many Hard-Liners, Debt Default Is the Goal
• Topher Spiro, The Myth of the Medical-Device Tax
• Joan Vennochi, Why the union-bashing?
• Paul Krugman, Exortionist Fellow-Travelers
• Michael Goldfarb, Birth of conservative delusion: Roger Ailes takes his revenge
• NY Times, From the Right, Despair, Anger and Disillusion
• Michelle Goldberg, 2008 Crash Prompts Young Intellectuals To Revisit Marxism
• Steve Almond, The Government We Deserve
• NY Times, California Sees Gridlock Ease in Governing

2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

• Mark Thoma, Fama, Hansen, and Shiller
• Neil Irwin, Robert Shiller: ‘When I look around I see a lot of foolishness, and I can’t believe it’s not important economically’

Social Commentary

• Ta-Nehisi Coates, What This Cruel War Was Over
• Kareem Abdul Jabar, How to Become a Man

Human Behavior

• Columbia Journalism Review, The Backfire Effect
• Bill Moyers, Sherry Turkle on Being Alone Together (Moyers interviewing Turkle)

History

• NY Times, ‘Ebony and Ivy,’ About How Slavery Helped Universities Grow
• The Oatmeal, Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not)

Science

• Coursera, Global Warming: The Science of Climate Change
• IEEE Spectrum, New Optics Can Capture Wide Fields in Exquisite Detail
• Irving Herman, Herman’s Research and the American Presidency
• Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab
• Adela Barriuso and Antonio Torralba, Notes on Image Annotation