Robert Pollack (Columbia): Natural Selection, the Human Genome, and the Idea of Race. From Taki's Mag, Paul Gottfried on the limits of race; Steve Sailer on how white pride is uncool; and Jared Taylor on the question of what it means to be white. From Ovi, an article on Christian extremists within the U.S. military: myth or reality? An interview with George Scialabba on the untethered, untenured mind (and Wesley Yang reviews What Are Intellectuals Good For? by George Scialabba). Have you ever been a "judicial activist"? Taking the Hill: Facing a fight on health care — and trying to avoid the mistakes of the past — President Obama’s team is working Congress from the inside. Guardians of cool, look away now — Coldplay are good. In light of the postmodernist cul-de-sac of relativism which, for all its social constructivism, cannot escape crude causality, M. Beatrice Fazi proposes a metaphysics of difference for decoding expression in interactive media. A review of Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts by Rosalyn Diprose and Jack Reynolds. A review of Ronald Aronson's Living without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the Undecided. A review of Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins's Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture, and Health.