Just in case it got lost in the shuffle of decade nostalgia, Alex Pareene's Encyclopedia of Counterintuitive Thought, which itemizes all the ways in which convention wisdom has been undermined, reveals what may have been the prevailing intellectual trick of the decade.
Not sure this is new. Pundits always have a need to differentiate themselves from the crowd. If commentary on a subject was considered "settled," then there (gasp!) would be no need for pundits. But, this is my favorite list of 2009 so far, so thanks!
posted by JV at 7:23 PM on December 13, 2009 
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