From Slate, David Plotz discusses Good Book, his chronicle of reading every single word of the Bible (and a review); a book club on The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court by Cliff Sloan and David McKean; and an e-mail debates on making sense of the credit debacle. What's the score? Science inspired the world wide web — two decades on, the web has repaid the compliment by changing science. The task of keeping a president in touch with his public is daunting, as Mike Kelleher well knows. Matthew Yglesias on Obama's Frenemies: The more photo ops with our “enemies,” the better. Alvaro Vargas Llosa on what to make of Eduardo Galeano's "Open Veins of Latin America", the book that Chavez gave Obama. Nudge-ocracy: Franklin Foer and Noam Scheiber on Barack Obama's new theory of the state. Steven Levitt has an unusual admission to make for someone who has just finished teaching a class at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Egg head: For Martin Kippenberger, variety was a way to unify the world around him. The introduction to Iraq: A Political History from Independence to Occupation by Adeed Dawisha. Dan Ariely on why we think it's OK to cheat and steal (sometimes).
