The introduction to When I'm Sixty-Four: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them by Teresa Ghilarducci. Once, "international" sounded saintly; now it means bureaucracy and waste. Might is always right: A review of A History of Political Trials from Charles I to Saddam Hussein by John Laughland. A review of The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle by Hendrik Lorenz. From The Spectator, a look at how De Gaulle understood that only nations are real. Highways, Hamlet, and Pancakes: An interview with Stephen Shore on A Road Trip Journal, a limited-edition facsimile of Shore’s documentation, photographic and otherwise. From TNR, Michelle Cottle on Nancy Pelosi, Badass. Does one of every four American teenagers really have a sexually transmitted disease? No, despite headlines given to a recent federal study. Maybe identity is the real problem: Quebec's Bouchard-Taylor commission said xenophobia is bad; anglophobia, not so much. A triumph of astroturf? How a consumer protection law may be defeated by a faux consumer watchdog campaign. The Autism Rights Movement: A new wave of activists wants to celebrate atypical brain function as a positive identity, not a disability — opponents call them dangerously deluded. A review of Alpha Dogs: The Americans Who Turned Political Spin into a Global Business by James Harding.