Anti-Climacus

FINALLY: For the inner nerd in all of us, there's the New York Review of Books' review on three new tomes on James Madison, the profoundly anti-democratic patriot who made America what it is today. If you've taken any intro to American Politics class, you've read The Federalist Papers, so you already know that. But it's always nice to read about people who seem freshly shocked by that revelation. The way in which the article disses the first book is especially nice.