The conventional wisdom debunked.

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• Is India More Equal Than the United States? Inequality is important, but the way we measure it is stupid.
  Mark Gimein May 1, 2008
  
• The Fizz-dom of Crowds If prediction markets are so great, why have they been so wrong lately?
  James Ledbetter April 16, 2008
  
• Playing the Racist Card Ferraro's comments about Obama were racist. Why can't we say that?
  Ta-Nehisi Coates March 14, 2008
  
• Orc Holocaust The reprehensible moral universe of Gary Gygax's Dungeons & Dragons.
  Erik Sofge March 10, 2008