Nota Bene: Today’s Reading Assignments

• Let Them Eat Arugula - Jonathan Chait, The New Republic
• The Widening ‘Generation Gap’ - Andrew Kohut, New York Times
• Voters: Racism Is Not the Problem - Stuart Taylor, National Journal
• Political Perceptions: So Nasty, So Soon — Washington Wire Blog, Wall Street Journal
• The New Paternalism — Evan Goldstein, Chronicle of Higher Education
• The Conservative Revival - David Brooks, New York Times
• Some still dissing McCain at polls — Jonathan Martin, The Politico
• Why Obama Won’t Take Hillary — Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive
• Newt Gingrich to GOP: Wake Up or Perish — Katrina Vanden Heuvel, The Nation
• Say It Ain’t So, Vito! — James Poulos, Doublethink Online
• 1968 Science Fiction is Today’s Reality — Psyorg.com
• Higher Learning — James Gibney, The Atlantic
  
• Crawford plays supporting role for Jenna Bush wedding – Dallas Morning News
• Scenes from Houston apartments — Matt Stiles, Houston Chronicle
• TSU will raise bar for new students, ends open enrollment – Jeannie Kever, Houston Chronicle
• Republicans Have Reason to be Gloomy – Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
• The Taint of ‘68 — Rich Lowry, New York Post
• ‘68 Was the Beginning Of It all — Noam Chomsky, New Statesman
• Burma killed by tyranny — Andrew Bolt, Melbourne Herald Sun
• Why the Obama-Clinton speculation is nuts – John Harris and Jonathan Martin, The Politico
• … And why the speculation is not nuts – John Harris and Jonathan Martin, The Politico
• Against Obama-Clinton ‘08 – Reihan Salam, The Atlantic
• Weekend Primer – SI on Campus
• World’s youngest professor can’t legally drink – Bob Considine, Today/MSNBC