From Monthly Review, Michael E. Tigar (Duke) and John Mage (MR): The Reichstag Fire Trial, 1933–2008: The Production of Law and History; Tariq Amin-Khan (Ryerson): Analyzing Political Islam: A Critique of Traditional Historical Materialist Analytic (and a response by Samir Amin); and a review of Vijay Prashad's The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World. Bluemen and yellowcake: Stefan Simanowitz reports from West Africa on the struggle of the Tuareg. With nationalist demagogues rising to power in both India and Israel, Pankaj Mishra examines their parallel histories. A Foreign Affairs roundtable discussion on the causes of instability in Pakistan and what, if anything, can be done about them; and who gets a state, and why? Stephen Krasner investigates. A look at The Venus Project, a radical plan to change the world. From IEET, an article on evolutionary ethics. Human evolution: Why people think life is a beach. From CT, a review of Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition by Robert Pogue Harrison and Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer by Tim Stark; and a review of The Arcadian Friends: Inventing the English Landscape Garden by Tim Richardson. A review of The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World by Peter Dear. The other kind of smart: Is it time for schools to try to boost kids' emotional intelligence?
