Stefan P. Dolgert (Toronto): In Praise of Ressentiment: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Glenn Beck (and more). Danny Duncan Collum on why Glenn Beck hates community organizers. David Weigel reviews The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama by Will Bunch (and more) and Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America by Kate Zernike. The Revisionaries: Bradford Plumer on the Tea Party’s goofy fetish for amending the Constitution. A Fashion Essentials Guide for the Tea Party Patriot: A movement that's rewriting the rules for politics is also rewriting new rules for fashion. From Forbes, Dinesh D'Souza on How Obama Thinks: The President isn't exactly a socialist — so what's driving his hostility to private enterprise? Look to his roots. David Thomas Smith (Michigan): The First Muslim President? Causes and Consequences of the Belief That Barack Obama is a Muslim. Bryan Adamson (Seattle): The Muslim Manchurian Candidate: Barack Obama, Rumors, and Quotidian Hermeneutics (2009). A review of The Manchurian President: Barack Obama’s Ties to Communists, Socialists and other Anti-American Extremists by Aaron Klein and Brenda Elliott. Muslims on Main Street: How a small town in America’s heartland fell in love with an Islamic revolutionary — twice. Susan Nance on her book How the Arabian Nights Inspired the American Dream, 1790-1835. Integration has always been the American body politic's best antibody against the virus of radical political ideology. The Ground Zero mosque controversy reveals important fault lines in Americans' thinking about religion. A review of Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race by Thomas Sugrue. A review of The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress by William Jelani Cobb.
