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American politics, religion, ideologies, and sex and gender

From TNR, Alan Wolfe reviews The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays, ed. by George A. Panichas (and responses at National Review). From National Review, Brink Lindsey bids Farewell to Culture Wars: Advice to conservatives from a "well-wishing outsider" (and a reply by Ramesh Ponnuru and a response). Protesting Too Much? At what point could the time spent on cultural activism be better spent on some type of pragmatic movement? From American Heritage, an interview with Ray Raphael, author of Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past. The Golden Age as Catastrophe: An excerpt from The Culture of Calamity Disaster and the Making of Modern America by Kevin Rozario. The Amateur Future of Space Travel: How NASA turned to America’s basement brainstormers, workbench concocters and garage tinkerers to revive the space program (and a video).

From Commentary, an exchange on Jews, IQ and history. A review of Inquisition: The Reign of Fear by Toby Green. From Christianity Today, a review of Wayward Christian Soldiers: Freeing the Gospel from Political Captivity by Charles Marsh; and have you prayed for bin Laden today? Brother Andrew urges Christians not to black list radical Muslims. From New English Review, Hugh Fitzgerald on understanding the resurgence of Islam; Rebecca Bynum on secular illusions; Adam Katz on Incarnations of Evangelicism: Avatars of a New Modernity. The iPhone release as a "religious' event": Is it God machine or tech tempter? If only Apple's sense of embracing the future was heeded within the walls of the church. Fringe Festival: Christian Reconstructionists hope to move out of the margins and take dominion in America – and they have some powerful friends.

From Vision, a series of articles on Messiahs! Rulers and the role of religion (in 8 parts). Can America survive Evolutionary Humanism? John Lloyd reviews Comrades: A World History of Communism by Robert Service; Communists and British Society 1920-1991: People of a Special Mould by Kevin Morgan, Gideon Cohen and Andrew Flinn; and Seven Years that Changed the World: Perestroika in Perspective by Archie Brown. From Anarkismo.net, Anarchism vs. Maoism: A response to Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party (U.S.) Bob Avakian. Anarchy for the USA: A conversation with Josh Wolf, jailed blogger.

From Campus Progress, a conservative “expert” tells you how to enjoy your single years: A review of Now and Not Yet: Making Sense of Single Life in the Twenty-First Century by Jennifer Marshall. You've heard of working vacations. Now comes "the working date." Many single people are so busy with careers that they don't have time for a social life. So they're increasingly blending work and romance. Look Who’s Googling: New acquaintances and secret admirers may already know all about you. Computers are like women because only a fool pretends to comprehend their immense mystery and complexity. One day they’re happy (as far as one knows) helpmeets, the next they’re making disquieting noises, sending you inscrutable error messages or simply packing it in. The New Trophy Wife: Alpha women are highly sought-after partners, but men may be more intimidated than they admit. Pure sex, pure love and the misery of misandry: Are men inferior to women? Wake up. Feminism is more than just capitalism with tits: Enough of the numbers game. The issue is not how many women are in power, but how many fight for collective rights.