A new issue of Politikon is out. From Mother Jones, here are five good things Bush has done. From TNR, here's the surprising inside story of how Obama scored the DNC keynote speech that made his career; and diplomacy for Barack Obama is more than an instrument, it is a mentality. The introduction to Philosophy and Real Politics by Raymond Geuss. The first chapter from The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity by Russell Roberts. A review of Republicans and the Black Vote by Michael K Fauntroy. The first chapter from What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Theda Skocpol, Ariane Liazos and Marshall Ganz. An excerpt from Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era by Houston A.

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