A regular sampling of the best articles, reviews, essays, and reviews from around the web.

Speed Read: The top 11 revelations of Taylor Branch’s Clinton Tapes (The Daily Beast)

* Related Title: Giving by Bill Clinton

50 Economics Ideas You Really Need to Know (The Telegraph)

* Related Title: The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman

All You Need to Know About the 2009 Booker Prize (Guardian)

* Related Title: Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America by Jay Parini

A Conversation with William Safire (Fresh Air with Terry Gross)

* Related Title: Nixonland by Rick Perlstein

The Waxing and Waning of America’s Political Right (New York Times)

* Related Title: Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party by Max Blumenthal

Barbara Ehrenreich: Poverty Now (WBUR - On Point)

* Related Title: This Land is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation by Barbara Ehrenreich

John Maynard Keynes: Don’t Call It a Comeback (Salon.com)

* Related Title: The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman

Richard Posner: How I Became a Keynesian (TNR)

* Related Title: The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope by Jonathan Alter

Are Jews Really Liberal? (The Daily Beast)

* Related Title: Whose Torah? A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism by Rebecca T. Alpert

Kim Phillips-Fein: Is the Conservative Movement Dead? (The Nation)

* Related Title: Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan by Kim Phillips-Fein

What’s So Good About Democracy?

* Related Title: The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World by Larry Diamond

The Case for God

* Related Title: The Evolution of God by Robert Wright

The Case Against the Bush Administration Lawyers

* Related Title: The Dark Side: How the War Against Terrorism Became a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer

The Essence of America in 1,095 Pages

* Related Title: Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America by Jay Parini

Reporting on the threat posed when reliable reporting fades away

* Related Title: Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press by Eric Boehlert

Why hasn’t America been attacked since 9/11? (Bloggingheads TV)

* Related Title: The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

Is the Internet melting our brains? (Salon)

* Related Title: Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press by Eric Boehlert

Health reform: What can America learn from other nations? (Fora TV)

* Related Title: Howard Dean’s Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform by Howard Dean with Igor Volsky and Faiz Shakir

Justice: What’s the right thing to do? (B&N Review)

* Related Title: Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists by Susan Neiman

What’s it like to be on Bin Laden’s book list? (NPR)

* Related Title: The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism by Matthew Carr

Reviews, essays, videos, and more from around the web.

My Paper Chase: Harold Evans and a Golden Age of Journalism (FT)

* Related Title: Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press by Eric Boehlert

The History of Christianity: The Greatest Story, or the Trickiest? (Economist)

* Related Title: The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong

How Brandeis Became a Giant of the Supreme Court (NY Times)

* Related Title: The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin

Irving Kristol’s Legacy and the Meaning of Neoconservatism (Bloggingheads TV)

* Related Title: Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power by Fred Kaplan

The Greatest Show on Earth: Richard Dawkins on Evolution (FT)

* Related Title: Monkey Girl by Edward Humes