From Commentary, John Bolton on the coming war on sovereignty; and James K. Glassman on Stimulus: A history of folly. Can Obama convince Americans it’s a good idea to raise taxes? From BBC Magazine, for some women paying for sex is more convenient than cruising bars and clubs trying to find men; a look at why size matters — smaller is better; and once we were all happy to walk around naked, now we're not; can people unlearn their naked shame? Down, Dow, Down! Chadwick Matlin can’t stop rooting for the stock market to fall. Jonathan Yardley reviews Blake Bailey's Cheever: A Life (and more and more and more and more and more and more; and more from Bookforum). Where nature went: Landscape painting shaped the direction of art for a century, then all but vanished — what happened? State of Emergency: Moni Mohsin on a personal history of Pakistan on the brink. What kind of regulation czar will Cass Sunstein be? A Europe of 23 official languages: A recent Spanish case helps to understand the risk of politicizing the multilingualism. Here are 10 reasons why conservatives' fiscal ideas are dangerous. What is experimental mathematics? Keith Devlin explains. In the modern Internet age we increasingly seek out ideas that interest us and filter out all else; is this dumbing down society and making us less knowledgeable?
