From TLS, the last reader of Julian Barnes: Despite the confessional depth and breadth of reference in Barnes's essay, "Nothing to Be Frightened Of" remains curiously slight. A review of After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France. An excerpt from The Myth of Judicial Activism: Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions by Kermit Roosevelt III. Paul Waldman on conservatives' hate-based campaign against Obama. How to humiliate and convert a right-winger: Drop the condescending "populist" talk and get mean. A review of Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk by James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer. From Foreign Policy, we’ve been hearing the troop surge has been a security success and a political failure, but with little media fanfare, Iraqis may have just found the key to resolving their differences: old-fashioned politics; and overshadowed by Iraq, Afghanistan is the war the world forgot — a look at whose militaries are pulling their weight—and who could do far more. Welcome to the Hotel Hiroshima: Has the ground zero of the nuclear age become too "normal"? Ron Rosenbaum investigates. Clinton-Obama, Obama-Clinton: How they could run together and take turns being president. A review of Philosophy and the Interpretation of Pop Culture, ed. William Irwin and Jorge Gracia.
