From Slate, Walter Dellinger, Linda Greenhouse and Dahlia Lithwick sit at the Supreme Court Breakfast Table. From The New Yorker, Laura Secor on the meaning of Iran’s crowds. Fareed Zakaria on the fatal wound inflicted on Iranian regime's ideology. From NYRB, Timothy Snyder on the Holocaust, the ignored reality; and a review of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy by Leslie H. Gelb. From TAP, a review of American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone by D.D. Guttenplan; and Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev (and more and more and more and more and more and an excerpt; and more from Bookforum). From The Monkey Cage, a look at the “long-term” effects and non-effects of watching politically-oriented TV shows. Woody Brock on why the solution to today's macroeconomic crisis does not lie within the field of macroeconomics at all, but rather within political theory. The Sex Vote: Political liberty is screwed — why libertarians can’t get it up. Why some people are gay: Notes (and clues) from the animal kingdom. A review of An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage and Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham (and more and more).
