From LRB, Plato made it up: A review of The Atlantis Story: A Short History of Plato’s Myth by Pierre Vidal-Naquet; Thomas Jones on the last days of eBay; ands who’s afraid of the Library of America? Madeline Albright on the end of intervention: Is the international system a collection of legal nuts and bolts cobbled together by governments to protect governments, or is it a framework intended to make the world a more humane place? Matt Taibbi on Hillary’s Run: The meaning is in her hands. Lack of party recruitment, not voter sexism, limits women’s presence in politics, according to a new study. Are men boring? They're doing well, holding down a good job, they've probably managed to find a wife and have a family — but can they hold a conversation? Taline Voskeritchian reviews Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh. From The Atlantic, who needs NASA when private enterprise is turning the stuff of science fiction into reality? Gary Becker, Myron Scholes, Michael Spence and Ed Phelps discuss discuss the depth of the U.S. financial crisis. From Ovi, here's a hard look at the European Union's cultural identity (and part 2); and does the Nordic Model need to be reformed? What to do when there are too many of us: An excerpt from More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want by Robert Engelman.