From Carnegie Council, a panel on Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam by Gordon M. Goldstein; and a panel on The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-First Century. From Campus Progress, an interview with Tim Westergren, co-founder of Pandora Internet radio, on the future of the music industry; and an interview with Harold Meyerson on unions, politics, and young people. A review of Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America by Cotten Seiler (and from Bookforum, a review of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt). More on David Zirin's A People’s History of Sports in the United States. From Commonweal, Andrew Bacevich on American Triumphalism: A postmortem. From Cracked, a look at 8 customers everyone hates; an article on 8 racist words you use every day; and here are the 10 steps to porn addiction: Where are you? "Uncircumcised penises are weird”, she paused before adding, a little backpedally, “Except yours, of course. Yours is OK”. In an excerpt from What Would Google Do?, Jeff Jarvis muses over government run by a Google guy (and an interview). Think animals don't think like us? Think again. A review of The Business of Tourism: Place, Faith, and History.
