From Women's Review of Books, a review of Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism by Anne Enke; and an essay on what women writers’ lives look like these days, from behind the editor’s desk. A review of Nichola D. Gutgold's Seen and Heard: The Women of Television News. A review of Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity through Workplace Discourse by Janet Holmes. Do women make better bosses? Hillary's Challenge: Would putting women first make for better foreign policy? Like mother, like daughter: Mothers teach girls about body image years before the media becomes an issue. Girls gone wild: A look at how feisty females took over pop culture. A review of The Noughtie Girl’s Guide to Feminism by Ellie Levenson. Lizzie Skurnick on Lois Duncan's disturbing teen classic Daughters of Eve, the book that taught her to hate men. From First Things, a review of Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist Movement by Mary J. Henold (and more). From The Chronicle, Christina Hoff Sommers on persistent myths in feminist scholarship (and a response). Scientific fundamentalist Satoshi Kanazawa on where feminists have gone wrong and why modern feminism is illogical, unnecessary, and evil.

The Observer visits Bradford, a city transformed by mass immigration, but cited in a recent survey for its essential "Englishness" and ask what that means today; and they sold our streets and nobody noticed: Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First-Century City by Anna Minton argues that a flawed urban-planning strategy has turned our cities into unfriendly, suspicious places (and more and more and more). In place of strife: The British pub was once a mainstay of working-class morality (and a look at Britain’s colourful pub signs). Let's relax about fairness: This talk of social mobility is a poor form of radicalism, says Alan Ryan. A review of A Radical History of Britain by Edward Vallance (and more and more). Labour may be struggling but there is more intellectual energy on the left than for a generation. A review of Waiting for the Etonians: Reports from the Sickbed of Liberal England by Nick Cohen. A review of "There Is No Alternative": Why Margaret Thatcher Matters by Claire Berlinski. A review of Julia Stapleton’s Christianity, Patriotism, and Nationhood: The England of G.K. Chesterton. An excerpt from Jonah Raskin's The Mythology of Imperialism: A Revolutionary Critique of British Literature and Society in the Modern Age.

Goodbye, Jumbo: An article on the identity crisis of the modern zoo. An article on the only zoos in the world where the animals are smuggled through tunnels. A review of The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals by Charles Siebert. Unnatural selection: Animals have personalities, too — that may be biasing studies of them. When "what animals do" doesn’t seem to cover it: A precise definition of behavior? From Notre Dame Magazine, an essay on the natural goodness of dogs. From NPR, look at that puppy! But be careful what you say. Dogs in a deadly crossfire: Confronted by the family pet, police often shoot first and ask questions later. Kill, Baby, Kill: Sarah Palin’s war on wolves and bears has been a disaster not just for Alaska but for the moose and caribou it is supposed to benefit. There is a huge chasm between American citizens who feel good about living with other species and those who don't give a damn — why? A review of The Death of the Animal: A Dialogue. From Reason, an article on the shifting frontiers of animal rights: Activists yawn as animals lurch toward a hybrid future. How do we decide which animal genome to map next? New creatures in an age of extinctions: Newly discovered species continue to emerge as we bulldoze our way into the unknown.

The first chapter from Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany: Individual Fates and Global Impact by Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze. From The Chronicle, what if you pull a literary hoax and nobody notices? From Cabinet, games of chance: D. Graham Burnett on testing at the limits of the normal. Disturbing the peace: Brandon O'Neill on the inalienable right to "excessively noisy sex". Pixar's artists release a racy side project, the Ancient Book of Sex and Science. Ron Paul is the inspiration behind a new online dating site called Ron Paul Singles; "We put the LOVE in Revolution," the Web site proclaims. And we have learned what? John McWhorter on the real lesson after the beer. The message is the message: Barack Obama’s ubiquitous appearances as professor-in-chief, preacher-in-chief, father-in-chief, may turn out to be the most salient feature of his presidency. The Lobbying Web: By putting health care in the hands of Congress, Obama may have given an edge to special interests. Linking, within common sense rules of decency, is good for everyone. For some that write for sites that get linked to, aggregators are stealing content. An omen no one saw: When Talk magazine was introduced at a decadent party, no one knew what the Internet would do to the business.