From Taki's Top Drawer, Thomas E. Woods Jr. on Authority Issues: Is There Sovereignty Beyond the State?; John Zmirak on Anarcho-Fantasy: The Dream of a World Without the State; and Paul Gottfried on The Twilight of National Sovereignty. From Spectator, if you or your chatmate are looking for a nilogism or mislexis, don’t wait till an earar. Hack the Vote: Five ways Internet tricksters could tamper with the 2008 elections. Do subatomic particles have free will? If we have free will, so do subatomic particles, mathematicians claim to prove. From NPR, a look at the top athletes who aren't at the Olympics. Bisexual men might have their "hyper-heterosexual" female relatives to thank for their orientation. National Review likes "Stuff White People Like" in small doses. A Future of Less: Here's how government can help curb America's seemingly endless appetite for "more". From Mental Floss, a look at 3 controversial maps. From Intelligent Life, an article on how to cheat at everything. In a democracy, lingering rituals like presenting swords to politicians should have no place. Master of memes: An interview with moot, the founder of 4chan. A review of Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood by Anna Kirkland. Hipsters and the death of cool: Today, youth culture has drained even potent symbols like the keffiyeh of any meaning — is that such a bad thing?

From The New Yorker, a review of Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic by Ingrid D. Rowland; David Remnick on how Lang Lang, China’s greatest musician, will win the Beijing Games; an article on the making of a long-distance runner, Ryan Hall; and can the Burmese people rescue themselves? George Packer wants to know. From The Atlantic Monthly, Robert Kaplan on lifting the bamboo curtain: As China and India vie for power and influence, Burma has become a strategic battleground. From NYRB, the strange history of birth control: A review of Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population by Matthew Connelly. We grew up too comfortable to take risks: What if Japan, the face of the future, is showing us who we are becoming, a Cassandra of our trans-cultural futures. Lisa Randall on understanding multiple dimensions. From TED, Murray Gell-Mann on beauty and truth in physics; Louise Leakey on digging for humanity's origins; and Kevin Kelly on predicting the next 5,000 days of the web. From Big Think, before Silicon Valley: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on growing up in San Francisco; Lisa Witter on capitalism and its enemies; and Susan Neiman explains the concept of moral maturity; how to become a better person; and current perspectives on evil. Keeping up appearances: An article on the benefits of pretending to be insane.

From The American Conservative, a cover story on The Anthrax Files: The FBI claims to have caught the killer, but so much evidence has been neglected or mishandled that many experts still have doubts; a review of An American Family: The Buckleys by Reid Buckley; and going off the Rawls: Libertarians have adopted the Left’s favorite modern philosopher. From TNR, a review essay on the Darfur genocide (and more); a look at the downside of Barack Obama's cool; and Richard Posner on the Supreme Court's wrongheaded gun control decision. From FP, here's the latest Terrorism Index 2008; and talking sex and power in the Catholic Church: An interview with Geoffrey Robinson. From The Nation, the Obama campaign's voter-registration drive could be the real change America's been waiting for (and more); a review of Rick Perlstein's Nixonland (and an excerpt at Bookforum); and a review of The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball by Nicholas Dawidoff. Is Jon Stewart the most trusted man in America? Michiko Kakutani investigates. From Scientific American, do social networks bring the end of privacy? (and more and more and more and more) Summa Sexologica: A review of The World We Have Won: The Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life by Jeffrey Weeks and What Happened to Gay Life? by Robert Reynolds.