A new issue of The Quarterly Conversation is out. From IHE, an interview with Frank Donoghue, author of The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities; an two hundred and counting: Scott McLemee takes stock of an "Internet decade". A review of The Overman in the Marketplace: Nietzschean Heroism in Popular Culture by Ishay Landa. From TLS, we are wrong to talk about the Tudors – after all, Tudor England hardly knew the name itself; and a review of books on Richard Wright. Why the brain follows the rules: Clues to understanding the human social brain come from a study of punishment's role in fairness. How might McCain's mind deteriorate over the next eight years? A report finds Maureen Dowd repeatedly uses gender to mock Democrats. From Reason, an article on Obama as the end of identity politics as we've known them; and an interview with Rick Perlstein on Nixonland (and an excerpt at Bookforum). Bruce Bartlett on the rise of the Obamacons. A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq. America might be the first country in recorded history whose culture celebrates not only indolence but also the sheer absence of ability. William Saletan on the case for virginity-restoration surgery. Living in the Clouds: Is computer software becoming obsolete?
