Just added, video interviews with Larry Diamond and Greg Anrig. Diamond is the author of The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World (link). It's a passionate and deeply researched case for democracy promotion -- as a moral end in itself and as a matter of national security. In Diamond's analysis, America has a key role in spreading "freedom," but not by force and not alone.

Greg Anrig is the author of The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right Wing Ideas Keep Failing (link) (and of this entertaining "Putdown" of Grover Norquist's latest anti-government pamphlet). Here he explains how the conservative movement has successfully pushed its agenda despite the patent failure of many of its policy ideas.