A new issue of Plus is out. A review of Leonard Zeskind's Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream (and more and more). Columnists are supposed to be provocative and contrarian — in Canada, nobody does it better than Terence Corcoran. Rush Limbaugh's race to the bottom: Bend over, grab your ankles and submit to a mind-blowing rundown of the radio bully's obsessive butt talk! From TLS, a review of books on Abraham Lincoln. A look at why we should start worrying and learn to fear the bomb again (and a response). Sweet Truth: Appreciations of ice cream and cake celebrate the deliciously fattening over the guiltily consumed fake. A review of The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His Time by Marshall McLuhan and The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion by Marshall McLuhan. Crisis, what crisis? Philip Stephens on how the market confounds the left. Everything Is Illuminati: Why can't the Catholic Church shake free of a 200-year-old conspiracy theory? Michael Shermer on why people believe invisible agents control the world. For a futurist, the author and political analyst George Friedman doesn't have a whole lot new to say. The Newt Bomb: How a pulp-fiction fantasy became a GOP weapons craze.
