In the U.S., says Lewis, it will be some time before such an experiment is politically palatable.
"The truth is we don't know how severe it will be, but the idea that 18 months after the debt ceiling we would experiment with politically-caused economic shocks just seems reckless".
But the experiment was a politically sensitive one on both sides of the Atlantic.
She joins the assaultive presentation of sexuality in the work of the Marquis de Sade and Georges Bataille — a tradition Yuknavitch calls "the underbelly of literature" — with the ecstatic lyricism of the French novelist and theorist Monique Wittig, plus the conviction, shared with Hélène Cixous, that formal experiments can be politically liberating.
In the interview, Huckabee likened homosexuality to drug use, incest, and polygamy, and suggested that same-sex adoption was a politically motivated "experiment" that shouldn't be allowed because "children are not puppies".
MSNBC tried a bold experiment this year by putting two politically incendiary hosts, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in the anchor chair to lead the cable news channel's coverage of the election.
Kansans were given a toxic dose of supply-side economics, and, whatever the results of next week's election, the experiment has been a failure, politically and economically.
Although RCTs may sometimes be unrealistic or politically untenable, "natural experiment" designs, in which a "natural or predetermined variation of allocation occurs," provide a promising alternative.
Bad impulses seize each of Moore's beguiling characters: an obsessed filmmaker who ignores ominous cardiopulmonary warnings; her niece, who experiments with petty thievery and politically motivated vandalism; a young hot-dog vendor who feels threatened by the Russian hoodlum living upstairs.
But its politically motivated style and experiments in long-form technique still greatly influence artists today.
