From Turbulence, a special issue on Present Tense, Future Conditional, including an interview with Felix Guattari: "There is no scope for futurology; history will decide". Back to the land: Why moving to the country will save us all. An interview with Tim Carney, author of The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money. A look at what today’s veterans can learn from tales of the Trojan War. From The Politic, an interview with Stephen Skowronek, author of The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton; an interview with Gary Sick, author of All Fall Down: America’s Tragic Encounter With Iran. A review of The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas by Diane Perpich. From World Watch, unnatural increase?: An essay on reducing family size and birthrates; and our panarchic future: An excerpt from The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization by Thomas Homer-Dixon. A review of A Movable Feast: Ten Millennia of Food Globalization by Kenneth Kiple. From EnlightenNext, a special issue on Constructing the New Man. From SciAm, a look at how renewable energy and storage solutions stack up; and does exercise really make you healthier? From Moment, an interview with Aaron David Miller, author of The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace (and more from Bookforum). 

From The University Bookman, Katherine Dalton on the "Time" of Elizabeth Madox Roberts; an essay on Newton Booth Tarkington, neglected Hoosier; an article on Robert Traver: Anatomy of a Fisherman; a review of Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies by Ginger Strand; a review of Say It One Time for the Broken Hearted: Country Soul in the American South by Barney Hoskyns; Donald Davidson and the South’s conservatism: An excerpt from Russell Kirk's The Politics of Prudence; a review of Contrary Country: A Chronicle of Vermont by Ralph Nading Hill; Gerald Russello in on Brooklyn’s side; and an interview with Christine Rosen on examining our technological assumptions. Is talk cheap? Thomas Sowell on Barack and Adolf. An article on the slow death of handwriting. From SciAm, a special section on the science of love. From The Futurist, two British researchers offer an ambitious plan to save the world from global warming; Reinventing morality: Evolutionary biology and neuroscience are adding to our understanding of a historically unscientific area (and an interview with Marc Hauser); a review of Imagining America in 2033: How the Country Put Itself Together after Bush by Herbert J. Gans; and a review of Free Market Madness: Why Human Nature Is at Odds with Economics — And Why It Matters by Peter A. Ubel.

From the latest issue of Democracy, Charles Kupchan and Adam Mount (Georgetown): The Autonomy Rule: The end of Western dominance means a new foreign policy principle is needed to advance international order; and Spencer Ackerman on why progressives should avoid claiming the surge in Iraq as a validation of their views, From YUP, an excerpt from The Unitary Executive: Presidential Power from Washington to Bush by Steven G. Calabresi and Christopher S. Yoo; and an excerpt from Between Virtue and Power: The Persistent Moral Dilemma of U.S. Foreign Policy by John Kane. A review of Irony in the Age of Empire: Comic Perspectives on Democracy and Freedom by Cynthia Willett. A review of America, Empire of Liberty: A New History by David Reynolds. From Bookforum, Matthew Yglesias reviews The Godfather Doctrine: A Foreign Policy Parable by John C. Hulsman and A. Wess Mitchell and The Myth of American Exceptionalism by Godfrey Hodgson. From Yes!, a special issue on sustainable happiness, including a review of David Korten's Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth (and an excerpt). What does the phenomenon known as Barbie say about the world in which our children are growing up? A review of Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol by Iain Gately. 

From the latest issue of Bookforum, behind the carefully constructed persona of suburban squire, John Cheever waged a tumultuous battle against himself — a struggle that only found its way into his very last works of fiction (and more and more and more and more). From Democracy, Dalton Conley on why, in this time of global financial crisis, America needs a sovereign wealth fund of its own (and a review of Conley's Elsewhere U.S.A. at Bookforum); and a review of books on the financial crisis. Bonus reduced: When a good thing suddenly isn't. From Time, a look at the 10 most endangered newspapers in America. Canadian books under attack — sometimes by their authors. A review of Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss (and more and more and more). A look at the legend of FDR's first 100 days in office. If you drive west from Dallas, through the neo-modern lunarscape of a pod city called Las Colinas, you'll never find Benny Hinn. From UUWorld, an interview with Ted Sorensen, JFK's speechwriter; for almost 1,000 years, the Christian church emphasized paradise, not Crucifixion; Frederick Wooden is sticking with classics: "My reasons for reading Hawthorne, Melville, and Dante are hardly noble"; and in bookstores, spirituality is packaged as if it's a pep pill for overworked managers. A review of The Morality of Embryo Use by Louis Guenin.