Dennis Soron (Brock): Cruel Weather: Natural Disasters and Structural Violence. From The Washington Quarterly, Gideon Rachman on democracy and the case for opportunistic idealism; and remember the Magnequench, an object lesson in globalization. From CT, a review of Sketch for a Self-Analysis by Pierre Bourdieu. A review of Ignorance and Imagination: The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness by Daniel Stoljar. A review of How Judges Think by Richard Posner. You might as well face it: You're addicted to success. From The Texas Observer, a review of Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature; a review of Blue Dixie: Awakening the South's Democratic Majority by Bob Moser; a review of The Dynamite Club: How a Bombing in Fin-de-Siecle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror by John Merriman (and more from Bookforum); and can Janet Napolitano stop the border-fence boondoggle? Images of cute, cuddly animals have replaced sad-eyed children in the latest campaigns to market charitable giving to Africa — but what does it really mean to buy a village a goat? From Three Monkeys Online, a review of Adam Smith in Beijing by Giovanni Arrighi; a review of The Power and the Glory: Inside the Dark Heart of Pope John Paul II's Vatican by David Yallop; and an interview with Tariq Ali on The Leopard and the Fox.