From Open Source, an interview with Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former president of Brazil; what would Roger Williams say and do? An interview with Martha Nussbaum and Jeff Sharlet; and an interview with Ethan Zuckerman and Solana Larsen of Global Voices Online. From H-Net, a review of Safehaven: The Allied Pursuit of Nazi Assets Abroad by Martin Lorenz-Meyer; and an essay on cutting through the legends surrounding Mein Kampf. Should Mein Kampf be un-banned? From Forward, training a lens on Israel’s female soldiers: A review of Serial No. 3817131 by Rachel Papo. The race for "Jewish" bedrock has turned a Jerusalem slum's archaeological riches into an existential threat. From Archeology, Moscow's top archaeologist talks about digging in the Kremlin and why Russia and the United States have a lot in common. Adam Michnik remembers Bronisław Geremek. Fact vs. truth: The New Yorker's Joseph Mitchell didn't let the former get in the way of the latter. From Scientific American, an article on the neurological roots of genius: Researchers are finding clues to the basis of brilliance in the brain; and how the brain monitors errors and learns from goofs. Poli Sci Fi: The presidential campaigns are running themselves into the ground; Scott McLemee thinks space is the place. McCain and Obama seem like funny guys, so why are their campaigns anything but?

From PUP, here's Rick Perlstein's introduction to Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents; the introduction to When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security by Edwin Amenta; the introduction to American Mythos: Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short by Robert Wuthnow; the first chapter from Moral Disquiet and Human Life by Monique Canto-Sperber; the first chapter from Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge by Roxanne L. Euben; the introduction to The Medieval Prison: A Social History by G. Geltner; and the first chapter from Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry by Fukagawa Hidetoshi and Tony Rothman. From Asia Times, Spengler on Sufism, sodomy and Satan. From Smart Set, an article on the death of the monoculture. From Dissent, Daniel A. Bell and Michael Walzer debate democracy promotion in China; a review of books on the conservative crack-up; Timothy Canova on the legacy of the Clinton Bubble; and an article on how to resist the growing threat to US education. For most people, college is a waste of time, so why not have job credentials that actually mean something? From Education Review, a review essay on the university at the end of the last century; and a review essay on John Dewey.

From Radar, a look at what the well-dressed racist is wearing; and here's everything you always wanted to know about Michelle Obama (but were afraid to ask). From Esquire, an interview with Stephen Colbert. From THES, a review of Free Riding by Richard Tuck; a review of Europe between the Oceans 9000BC-AD1000 by Barry Cunliffe; a review of Beyond Bullsh*t: Straight-Talk at Work by Samuel A. Culbert; and Terence Kealey reveals how hypocrisy, violence and torture in the America of George Washington have helped create the US of George Bush. An American Fascism? The afterword to Politics and the Occult: The Left, the Right, and the Radically Unseen by Gary Lachman. From FT, a review of Ben Bernanke’s Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan by Ethan Harris; and a review of The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought by Robert J. Richards and Darwin’s Garden: Down House and The Origin of Species by Michael Boulter. A review of A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz (and more and more and more and more and more). From First Principles, just how much oil the Lord should have provided us on this planet from the beginning is a matter of speculation. From FREEWilliamsburg, an article on Stuff Hipsters Don't Like.