From The Nation, victim 'hood: Chris Lehmann on an account of the most recent installment in the nation's sick love affair with literary exhibitionists. Has reading about books replaced the real thing? The sheer amount of reviews we can now access has taken some of the joy out of books. From The Economist, a special report on how America's foreign policy may change under the next president, but confusion over Iraq, worries about overstretch and divisions over the country's role in the world will remain. Does Clinton secretly want Obama to lose to McCain so she can take another crack at the White House in four years? The introduction to School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program by Susan Levine. Double negative: David Greenberg on the return of doughface liberalism. From Wired, futurist Ray Kurzweil pulls out all the stops (and pills) to live to witness the Singularity. A study suggests increased knowledge about global warming leads to apathy. Legal Bondage: Jeffrey Rosen on why we like restrictions on sex. Rich men behaving badly: Meet the super-rich, the dysfunctional class threatening American values. A review of Villages of Vision: a Study of Strange Utopias by Gillian Darley. From TNR, a review of The Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra Davis (and more). Dani Rodrik on globalization and the beautiful game.
