From Our Future, a series on learning from the cultural conservatives: "Messing With Their Minds", "Talking Up The Worldview", and "Taking It To The Street". From The Washington Post Magazine, here's a fond farewell to 209 once-common things that are either obsolete or well on the way. A review of Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture by W. T. Lhamon, Jr. Cass Sunstein on the Obama he knows. Actually, Johnny, monsters do exist: A review of A Brief History of Anxiety (Yours and Mine) by Patricia Pearson. The introduction to Analysis of Evolutionary Processes: The Adaptive Dynamics Approach and Its Applications by Fabio Dercole and Sergio Rinaldi. More on Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World by Samantha Power. Anne-Marie Slaughter reviews Fred Kaplan's Daydream Believers. Have people stopped clicking on Google Ads? Or did a Web-traffic firm get the numbers wrong? From Slate, an article on the perfect novel you've never heard of: Rediscovering Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo. Israel can't entirely eliminate the question of who's a Jew, but by disestablishing religion, it could make the issue less painful. From The Weekly Standard, the politics of a failed presidency: How McCain and the Republican party should deal with the Bush record.
