From The Daily Beast, from admiring lectures about Soviet double agent Kim Philby to coffee at Alger Hiss Cafe, hints abounded that accused Cuban spy Walter Kendall Myers might be a communist spook; and Dan Rather on the sadism at Gitmo: A detainee speaks. People are altruistic because they are militaristic, and cultured because they are common — at least that is the message of a couple of new studies. Are Predators our best weapon or worst enemy? Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann investigate. Lunch with the FT: Bob Woodward. A look at how stereotypes defeat the stereotyped. From First Principles, a review of The Contested Public Square: The Crisis of Christianity and Politics by Greg Forster; and a review of Cry Wolf: A Political Fable by Paul Lake. A review of Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism by Cathy Gere. The lighter side of Islam: An excerpt from The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday by Neil MacFarquhar (and more). "We lost all the battles, but we had the best songs": Serge Halimi is in praise of revolutions. How did astronomer Paul Davies come to propose that life arose on Mars and then seeded the Earth? An excerpt from Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back by Douglas Rushkoff.