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From Salon, a harrowing account from a man the CIA handed over to Jordan — smuggled from prison on tiny paper — exposes US complicity in torture. The word "liberal" scares Democrats, but to bring the change the U.S. needs, we need to embrace liberalism's proud history. Click Here for Torture: Two unnaturally sexy activists are trying to raise awareness of the horrors of Guantanamo Bay by inviting visitors to experience it for themselves—inside the virtual world of Second Life. An excerpt from The Solitary Vice: Against Reading by Mikita Brottman (and an interview). From TNR, Damon Linker reviews of Wayward Christian Soldiers: Freeing the Gospel from Political Captivity by Charles Marsh. The Eligible-Bachelor Paradox: How economics and game theory explain the shortage of available, appealing men. Paul Gottfried reconsiders Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. Clive Crook on the end of the American Exception: Economically speaking, America could soon be more European than Europe. From LA Weekly, an article on New York and L.A. theater, separated by common values. From the new issue of Literary Review, a review of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography Of V S Naipaul by Patrick French (and more and more). Voting behaviour seemingly confounds rational choice theory, but voting can be perfectly rational.