The introduction to Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930 by Robert M. Fogelson. The city of Magadan in Russia's Siberia was built from nothing, by and for Stalin's slave army. In Germany, the town of Ramersdorf was built from scratch on the magnanimous whim of Adolph Hitler. And America's very own example of the fad was the West Virginia town of Arthurdale, constructed during 1933 on the magnanimous whim of Eleanor Roosevelt. Every decade, it seems, contains a single year that epitomizes its era. The Depression had 1933; the Sixties, 1968. In the Fifties, it was 1957, the year of the pill, Sputnik, Dr. Seuss, Little Rock, and more. Half a century later, U.S. News takes a look back. A review of America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon by Mark Hamilton Lytle. A review of Confronting the New Conservatism: The Rise of the Right in America. A "Great Society" Conservative: Is the GOP going the way of LBJ?

From The Village Voice, the state pays for sex: How a mob-run S&M club put your tax dollars to work. A review of Wendy Shalit's Girls Gone Mild. Steven E. Landsburg on Sex, Sin, and Streetlights: Parsing hypocrisy, courtesy of Bob Allen. James Kirchick on why the Dems should shut up about gay marriage. An interview with Melinda Henneberger, author of If They Only Listened to Us: What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear. Getting Beyond Roe: A review of The Politics of Abortion by Anne Hendershott. Contradicting earlier findings of a greater risk of ectopic pregnancy, a new report says the controversial abortion pill is as safe for women as surgical abortions. Just how legally viable is Maryland’s Viable Fetus Act? An article on equating stillbirths with murders.

A review of Embryo Culture: Making Babies in the Twenty-First Century by Beth Kohl. Blended families of Angelina and Madonna renown seem to make people anxious, raising questions about the nature of parental love. Do people have different feelings about their adoptive children and their offspring? Is parental love a natural or a conscious act? From Christianity Today, an article on the spirituality of potty training. Has childhood really changed that much? A review of Children At Play: An American History by Howard P. Chudacoff (and more). Abandoning or neglecting children is not acceptable. Neither is abandoning or neglecting our elders. Is not the end of life as valuable as the start? A Modest Proposal: For preventing the People of the United States from being a burden to their Government, and For Making Them Beneficial to The Public.