A new issue of Politikon is out. From Mother Jones, here are five good things Bush has done. From TNR, here's the surprising inside story of how Obama scored the DNC keynote speech that made his career; and diplomacy for Barack Obama is more than an instrument, it is a mentality. The introduction to Philosophy and Real Politics by Raymond Geuss. The first chapter from The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity by Russell Roberts. A review of Republicans and the Black Vote by Michael K Fauntroy. The first chapter from What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Theda Skocpol, Ariane Liazos and Marshall Ganz. An excerpt from Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era by Houston A. Baker Jr. Beautiful minds on the shelf: A review of Great Ideas: Series Three. It’s a Maddow, Maddow World: MSNBC’s fresh-faced host glows under the hot lights in Denver. From Prospect, flirting with Stalin: Little wonder that Putin has been able to exploit nostalgia for Soviet "greatness"; is behavioural economics such a big deal? Pete Lunn and Tim Harford debate; and why Hamlet's heirs are happy: Shakespeare's prince was a gloomy sort, but a trusting society makes today's Danes rather jolly. From Jewcy, an article on Zizek for Jews.
