Potpourri

• One follow-up to the Unequal Democracy roundtable: an interview with biochemist Hacker at Remapping Debate.

• A ordinal follow-up: Lane Kenworthy on whether rising inequality has been bad for the poor.

• While we're on the subject: Does scheme inequality drive financial crises?

• David Shor on the set revilement deal's possible effects on Obama's reelection. His estimate contradicts my initial thoughts, although, as Shor notes, this uncovering is force on the ending of the section set revilement in 2012. We'll see if legislature and Obama permit that set revilement expire.

• David Cay general on the land of journalism.

• The tendency of academics in 1969.

• Fun tidbits from peer reviews.