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The end of the end of history

From German Law Journal, a special issue on Law, the State, and Evolutionary Theory. An interview with Weiner Davis, author of The Sex-Starved Wife: What to Do When He's Lost Desire. Matt Taibbi on Hillary's flimsy case for the nomination. From FP, an interview with Alina Fernandez, the estranged daughter of Fidel Castro. A review of George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography by John G. Rodwan, Jr. From Time, here's the story of Barack Obama's mother. Robert Kagan on The End of the End of History: Why the twenty-first century will look like the nineteenth. “Hardball” host Chris Matthews’s bombastic style is increasingly at odds with the wry, cynical tone of other TV personalities; is this his last election in the spotlight? A review of Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius by Detlev Claussen. Why US airlines still won't join the Mobile Mile-High Club. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the next president’s first task. A review of Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach (and more and more and more and more and an interview). From The Next American City, a special issue on Living Under Peril. Beware the lesson of the Tory wolf in liberal clothing: Sweden's social democracy has been transformed for the worse. Changing the ways we connect: Globalism today has less to do with countries than with how we choose to define our communities.