From CLR, a photo essay on North Korean propaganda posters. Jagdish Bhagwati on why the selfish hegemon must offer a New Deal on trade, and Moises Naim on how double standards have always been a part of US foreign policy, but it’s time to figure out how many should no longer be tolerated. An excerpt from Adam Smith in Beijing by Giovanni Arrighi. Humanitarian Impulses: Why interventions aren’t going away. From CT, a review of Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet by Ted Nield; and a review of Geography and Revolution. A review of An Atlas of Poverty in America: One Nation, Pulling Apart, 1960-2003 by Amy K. Glasmeier. A review of The Future of Gender. From First Things, an article on Smelly Olde England. Here are 10 other amazing buildings by 2008’s Olympic architects. A review of Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom by Andy Letcher. An excerpt from Self-Concern: An Experiential Approach to What Matters in Survival by Raymond Martin. The end of aviation: What will happen when America can't afford to fly? A review of The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s by G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot. A review of The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture in the Twentieth Century from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn by Solomon Volkov.