Mark Schmitt and Jamelle Bouie criticize Americans Elect, which failed in its attempt to nominate a centrist presidential candidate. Plus: Should states compete like corporations?

Matthew Hutson, author of the new book The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking, considers the upside of irrationality. Plus: Is it irrational to want to leave a legacy?

Matt Duss and Hussein Ibish discuss how Israel’s closure of Gaza puts money in Hamas’s pocket. Plus: An Islamist liberals can love?

Glenn Loury and Ann Althouse compare the declining Occupy movement with the more robust Tea Party. Plus: Lying, BS, and Obama.

Bill Scher tries to convince Matt Lewis that the GOP should place the recruitment of female and minority candidates ahead of strict ideological fidelity.

Does the Euro crisis point to the inevitable demise of idiosyncratic national customs? Conor Friedersdorf and James Poulos consider. Plus: The surprise of parenting.

Younger evangelicals are much less likely to oppose same-sex marriage. Sarah Posner and Sarah Pulliam Bailey consider the implications for the future of evangelical churches. Plus: “Anti-gay rights” vs. “anti-gay.”

Confronted with Romney vs. Obama, how should anti-war conservatives vote? Michael Brendan Dougherty and Daniel McCarthy weigh the options. Plus: Passive-aggressive politics.

David Frum, author of the new novel Patriots, considers which personality type is more destructive to our politics. Plus: Our rotten elites.

Robert Farley and Matthew Yglesias challenge the common view on the left that Greece is a victim of circumstance. Plus: Europe’s house of cards.