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Judging a book by its cover

From TNR, Paul Berman on the death of 1989: The vast, frightening fallout of Russia's invasion of Georgia; and the Kosovo Card: Ruth Wedgwood on the moral and legal fallacies of Russia's pretense for invading Georgia. From PUP, the introduction to Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools by Mica Pollock; the introduction to Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape Our Civic Life by David E. Campbell; and the introduction to The Welfare State Nobody Knows: Debunking Myths about U.S. Social Policy by Christopher Howard. From Rolling Stone, Sean Wilentz on How Bush Destroyed the Republican Party (and a video). Lifehacking for candidates: The pros give productivity advice to the presidential hopefuls. From Mute, Giovanni Arrighi invokes the political economy of Adam Smith to claim that China's labour intensive mode of production is the future of capitalism — it's also the past, argues Daniel Berchenko. A review of Judging a Book by Its Cover: Fans, Publishers, Designers, and the Marketing of Fiction. More on John Allen Paulos' Irreligion. A blueprint for good: A new movement aims to change the world through free architecture. They mean business. A review of Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality by Charles Murray (and more and more from Inside Higher Ed).