What's so great about the Sixties anyway? From Mad Men to Woodstock and all the obsessive nostalgia, Hollywood may have duped us into a romance with an era no better than our own (and more on Mad Men). A review of "What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?": Jimmy Carter, America's Malaise, and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country by Kevin Mattson (and more and more and more). An interview with Geoffrey Nunberg: Bush wasn't as inarticulate as you thought. A review of Hurricane Katrina: America's Unnatural Disaster by Jeremy Levitt and Matthew Whitaker. A review of Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges (and more). A review of Is Democracy Possible Here? by Ronald Dworkin. Brian Cook reviews You Can’t Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America by John MacArthur. A review of The Battle for America 2008 by Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson (and more and more and more and more). A review of Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America by Kurt Andersen (and more and more). FEMA's administrator has a message for Americans: get in touch with your survival instinct. The Catholic Church helped preserve Roman civilization; can Mormonism do the same for America? A review of Imagining America in 2033: How the Country Put Itself Together after Bush by Herbert Gans.
