From The Space Review, a review of License to Orbit: The Future of Commercial Space Travel by Joseph Pelton and Peter Marshall; and an article on revisiting “Tourists in Space”. John Zmirak on the Amazing Catholic Bullshit Generator. Jonathan Israel is perfectly suited to be one of the star guests for the 2008 World Congress of Philosophy, which aimed to rethink philosophy. A review of The American Future: A History by Simon Schama. Supreme Reforms: How the nation's highest court could be improved. The first chapter from Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities by Camille Charles, Mary Fischer, Margarita Mooney and Douglas Massey. Card check is dead — unions are surprisingly bad at politics. Leave them kids alone: A review of books on children and parenting. Timothy Garton Ash on how this epochal crisis requires us to resolve the paradox of capitalism (and a look at how Plato can help us). Queer developments: How did Washington miss the generational shift toward gay marriage? An article on natural happiness and the self-centered case for environmentalism. How the Left turned to the Right: Liberal over-sensitivity to the beliefs of others is undermining freedom of speech, giving reactionaries an easy ride.