A new issue of NPQ is out, on "The Rise of the Rest". From Foreign Policy, here's an instant history of the Georgian War. How "the man" kept Playgirl down: Believe it or not, there was actually a time when smart women read it for the articles. From Mental Floss, here's 13 medal-worthy Olympic stories. A look at the 10 worst Chinese laws. Around the time of the Chinese Revolution in 1949, a small crowd of foreign sympathisers came to help build the Maoist dream; sixty years later, one of them is still there. Christopher Hitchens reviews Miami and the Siege of Chicago by Norman Mailer. Which tomato is more nutritious, the commercial variety that goes into ketchup or the precious heirloom beloved by gourmets? Theda Skocpol reviews Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age by Larry Bartels. The dawn of global trade: An excerpt from When Asia Was the World by Stewart Gordon (and part 2). From The Weekly Standard, apparently, the Good War was a bad idea: A review of Churchill, Hitler, and the "Unnecessary War" by Patrick Buchanan and Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker; and a review of Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube & the Future of American Politics by Morley Winograd and Michael Hais and Unconventional Wisdom: Facts and Myths About American Voters by Karen Kaufmann, John Petrocik, and Daron Shaw.
