Joseph W. Bendersky (VCU): Horkheimer, "Militant Democracy", and War. From The Atlantic Monthly, for some people, spending just doesn’t come naturally, especially in a recession — behavioral economists have a solution; and Christopher Hitchens on Edward Upward, one of the only writers of the ’30s to deal with Britain’s elephant in the room — fascism — but his career was forever warped by his communism. Organised queuing? It's a drastic solution to what can seem to be a mysterious art — getting served at a busy bar. Obama's regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, has a complex faith in market initiatives — but sometimes a "nudge" is not enough. AskMeFi: When the hive mind works, it's a beautiful thing. Revenge of the Nerd: An interview with Rachel Maddow. All in the Game: Inside the mind of Barack Obama as he sets forth on his first term as President. From American Heritage, of steadycams and skycams: Filmmakers have long sought the means to add a little kinetic energy to their moving images. The other porn addiction: Why are ordinary women exposing themselves online? An article on the legacy of Modernism: Celebrating 90 years of Bauhaus. A review of Max Weber: A Biography by Joachim Radkau. Aren’t there a lot of other people with ostensibly respectable academic credentials who have reason to suspect that they may be uncultured oafs?