The Impartial Spectator: Dinesh D'Souza on a moral argument for life after death (and part 2 and part 3). A consortium of magazine publishers including Time Inc. and Conde Nast are jointly building an online newsstand for magazines in multiple digital formats. A look at why universities welcome theological colleges. From New Scientist, an article on the truth about the disappearing honeybees (and more; and more at Bookforum). The Fifty-Year War: We learned so much, at such cost, in Vietnam — why must we learn it all again in Afghanistan? A special "Helmets and Lost Planets" issue of the Annals of Improbable research is out. More on Animal Spirits by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller. No freaking way: Freak dancing at Catholic high school events, both on and off property, should be talked about. Here are 6 things your body does every day that science can't explain. A review of On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman. A look at how vegetarianism is a major step for environmental change. Ward E. Jones explores the theory of comedy with "The King of Comedy". Who needs God when we've got Mammon?: The world's most prosperous (and happiest) countries are also its least religious. Here's smug married advice to the single: Emotional risk in dating is a lot like financial risk in investing. Lorraine Bowman-Grieve (Leeds Trinity): Anti-abortion Extremism Online. A look at how the search for aliens gets harder — but more encouraging. My life as a political cartoonist: Jonathan Shapiro, better known as Zapiro, is South Africa’s top political cartoonist.

A new issue of African American Review is out. From TNR, a review of Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington by Robert J. Norrell (and more at First Things). A review of Divine Discontent: The Religious Imagination of W.E.B. DuBois by Jonathon Kahn. From Americana, Massimo Rubboli (Genoa): "Now That He Is Safely Dead": The Construction of the Myth of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968); and Nina Bosnicova (GS): God is an Activist: Religion in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. From CT, a review of Jesus and Justice: Evangelicals, Race and American Politics by Peter Goodwin Heltzel; a review of Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion by Barbara Dianne Savage; a review of The Decline of African American Theology: From Biblical Faith to Cultural Captivity by Thabiti Anyabwile; and a review of Race: A Theological Account by J. Kameron Carter. An interview with Cornel West on Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud (and more and more and more). The problem with the Black intelligentsia: Any symbolism from our "post-racial" president means absolutely nothing until smart African-Americans can replace Obama-fed neurosis with real-world understanding. The case for Du Bois after the century of the color line: Peniel Joseph reviews In the Shadow of DuBois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America by Robert Gooding-Williams. John McWhorter on how Zora Neale Hurston’s writing challenged black people as well as white — and why National Review would have loved her. Meet The Root 100, men and women who are changing the world.