From Red Pepper, articles on the rise of European Bobo politics and of Europe’s far right. Wrong things, rightly named: Eastern European Tzvetan Todorov knows what to call the practices covered in the CIA report; Scott McLemee follows his lead. From Reviews in History, a review of Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg. The politics of guilt: What other group in world history has been more “tolerant” or less hostile to outsiders than were white Protestants? A review of The Death of Conservatism by Sam Tanenhaus (and more and more and more and more and more and more and more). Dead Wrong: Sarah Palin, meet Hippocrates — and Levi Johnston, who describes life with the Palins. The wing-nut code: What Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are really saying to their followers. Actually, Obama doesn’t want to take over the Internet. From TNR, Gabriel Sherman on the story behind the Obama-Brooks bromance. Rehabilitate the state: Those who decry "big government" soon realise how much we need it when things go wrong. The collapse of unfettered capitalism should have been a golden opportunity for the left — so where did it all go wrong? From Boston Review, Noam Chomsky on crisis and hope, theirs and ours. Is Ralph Nader irrelevant? This generation might be bored with Nader’s message.
