A new issue of Plus is out. A review of Leonard Zeskind's Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream (and more and more). Columnists are supposed to be provocative and contrarian — in Canada, nobody does it better than Terence Corcoran. Rush Limbaugh's race to the bottom: Bend over, grab your ankles and submit to a mind-blowing rundown of the radio bully's obsessive butt talk! From TLS, a review of books on Abraham Lincoln. A look at why we should start worrying and learn to fear the bomb again (and a response). Sweet Truth: Appreciations of ice cream and cake celebrate the deliciously fattening over the guiltily consumed fake. A review of The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His Time by Marshall McLuhan and The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion by Marshall McLuhan. Crisis, what crisis? Philip Stephens on how the market confounds the left. Everything Is Illuminati: Why can't the Catholic Church shake free of a 200-year-old conspiracy theory? Michael Shermer on why people believe invisible agents control the world. For a futurist, the author and political analyst George Friedman doesn't have a whole lot new to say. The Newt Bomb: How a pulp-fiction fantasy became a GOP weapons craze.

From New Internationalist, a special issue on multiculturalism. Until Logic Did Them Apart: Jonathan Chait on the definitive case against gay marriage critics. Revenge of the Nerd: Paul Wilmott is out to save Wall Street's soul — one dork at a time. The Economist on Paul Krugman's London lectures on the crisis in the economy and in economics. Wendy Grossman finds a solution to the financial crisis in Uranus. From Jewcy, an article on Jews in the world at the end of philo-Semitism; and a look at how to save Judaism: Better marketing! God is merciful, but only if you're a man: Jew, Christian or Muslim, whatever the faith, women are still treated with disdain or worse. A review of Seven Deadly Sins: A Very Partial List by Aviad Kleinberg. Confessions of a Non–Serial Killer: Conspiracy theories are all fun and games until you become the subject of one. Ron Rosenbaum on why the 2012 cult is a silly scam. All the Letters Fit to Print: A longstanding rivalry between old friends shows what it takes to get into the New York Times. Alex Gibney on Gitmo Solutions: Super size them! A review of Eiffel’s Tower: And the World’s Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count by Jill Jonnes and Paris from the Ground Up by James H. S. McGregor.

From Democracy, Michael Lind on the Case for Goliath: FDR understood that when it comes to business, big is beautiful — for workers, consumers, and the economy; the moral market: The recession and its free-market-on-steroids causes provide progressives the opportunity to start a new culture war of our own; Mission Not Accomplished: Meet the press — and see why it failed at several critical points during the Iraq War; we can abandon Bushism — and still care how states treat their people; a review of human rights reports; Marcy Darnovsky on why progressives can't — and shouldn't — remove politics and values from science; a review of books on the Supreme Court; Ronald Brownstein reviews books on politics; and Jonathan Rauch reviews The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History by Patrick Allitt. From TNR's "The Stash", a look at the economics of high-end prostitution. The Peace Plus One Social Club: The Walrus goes inside the budding Chinese environmental movement; and an an inconvenient talk: A look at Dave Hughes’s guide to the end of the fossil fuel age. Six experts discuss the merits of framing climate change, the language that troubles them, and the inherent bias of any chosen word. Plato at the Union: The mediocre man has some notions about many things.

A new issue of Symmetry is out. From The New Yorker, can Leon Panetta move the C.I.A. forward without confronting its past? Jane Mayer investigates; Hendrik Hertzberg on the Obama Effect: A different push for change in the Middle East; will gas prices pump up inflation? James Surowiecki wonders; and a review of Matthew B. Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work (and more and more) and Richard Sennett's The Craftsman (and more from Bookforum). From Literary Review, John Gray reviews Enlightening: Letters 1946-1960 by Isaiah Berlin; and a review of Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment by William McCarthy. Is France on the verge of another May '68? Liberating lipsticks and lattes: The Coming Insurrection, a book which predicts the imminent collapse of capitalist culture, has developed a small but devoted following. From Slate, could a personalized magazine help save print media?; and the beginning of the end for newspapers: It was game over for metro dailies by 1965. Share the responsibility: Blogs need to get together if they ever hope to replace the newspaper. How can bands prove their counterculture bonafides when their main forum for advertising, MySpace pages, are the product of an enormous corporate conglomerate?