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... . Political battles over Supreme Court nominees were nothing new, but never before had they attracted Nielsen ratings like these. Pundits and the public worried that this all looked "too political" to be healthy for ... about congressional power to check presidential extremism, they are a worrisome development. Meanwhile, the "nomination mess" (as political scientist Michael Comiskey termed it) continued unabated. As Jan Crawford Greenberg documents in Supreme Conflict, the Republican Party learned ...

... s highly critical review in The New Yorker of Free, the new book by Wired Magazine's editor-in-chief Chris Anderson, whose blog ("The Long Tail") is here. If you're interested in that debate, Anderson's response is here, Seth Godin's take is here ("Malcolm is wrong"), and Clay Shirky's ruminations on the inevitable end of the newspaper is here. More useful for our purposes is Michael Nielsen's thoughtful examination of the scientific publishing industry, in which he argues that "even smart and ...