From Slate, Christopher Beam spends a day with Grover Norquist, among the believers; and uncivil union: Does card check kill the secret ballot or not? An article on fantasy baseball as cultural prism. From Campus Progress, here's what you should know about financial lobbyists; and an interview with Mike Lux, author of The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be. A review of Jedediah Purdy's A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom. A review of The Craftsman by Richard Sennett. Did Levi Strauss realize the havoc his creation would wreak on the modern world? A review of Richard Epstein's Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property. A review of Alain Badiou: Live Theory by Oliver Feltham. E.J. Dionne Jr. on a left of center-right country. The San Francisco Chronicle interviews Laura Albert. Taliban vs. Predator: Are targeted killings inside Pakistan a good idea? An interview with Jacques Bouchard on nuclear power and the challenges of global climate change and nuclear proliferation. A look at why global leaders should have their own brand of vodka. India wants something that no global economic powerhouse should be without: an international symbol for its currency. A stop on the squatters' trail: Where do they come from, where do they go, what's the deal with those tramping street kids?
