ERIC POSNER: The Rise and Rise of American Exceptionalism.

THOUGHTS ON TALK OF A REVIVED “FAIRNESS” DOCTRINE: “It gives one pause when a leading Democrat compares talk radio to pornography. But that’s what Sen. Charles Schumer of New York did on Fox News a week ago while advocating a return to the Fairness Doctrine requiring holders of broadcast licenses to present controversial issues in a balanced way.”

HEH: Obama Puts Clinton Vets on Team, Overlooks Hillary.

NICK GILLESPIE: three predictions for Obama’s America.

TEN QUICK FIXES FOR HOME-REPAIR PROBLEMS, from the book When Duct Tape Just Isn’t Enough: Quick Fixes for Everyday Disasters.

THE PHYSICS OF SURFING: With video.

ILYA SOMIN: Return of the Conservative/Libertarian coalition?

Plus, calling out the libertarian militia?

AN ELECTION POLL ON what voters want on the issues. That hasn’t changed as much as their votes on candidates might suggest.

WILL V.W.’S CHATTANOOGA PLANT also make Audis?

THE DEATH OF SPACE TOURISM? Talk of James Oberstar as Secretary of Transportation. Given his record, I think he’d be a bad choice.

A LIST OF THE best history books of 2008. The list includes Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, which I predict will enjoy a second round of interest as a result of the election.

JOHN HAWKINS looks at how the right-leaning blogosphere is coping with defeat, and compares it to how the lefties dealt in 2000 and 2004.

Plus, Victor Davis Hanson on how to criticize our next President: “It seems to me that conservatives have a golden opportunity to offer criticism and advice in a manner that many liberals did not during the last eight years. By that I mean I hope there are no conservative versions of the Nicholson Baker Knopf-published ‘novel’ Checkpoint, the creepy documentary by Gerald Range, the attempt to name a sewer plant after an American President, or the celebrity outbursts that we have witnessed with the tired refrain of Hitler/Nazi Bush—that all have cheapened political discourse. When I hear a partisan insider like Paul Begala urging at the 11th hour that we now rally around lame-duck Bush in his last few days, I detect a sense of apprehension that no Democrats would wish conservatives to treat Obama as they did Bush for eight years.”

LARRY SUMMERS: Africa is “under-polluted.” Probably right, but not playing well with lefties who’d rather see Barney Frank as Treasury Secretary . . . .

HOW OBAMA KILLED “ELECTION DAY:” Some marketing lessons for the GOP.

PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE ISSUES A WARNING on “incipient toryism.”

JEFF JARVIS: Our Airwaves.

ANOTHER CASUALTY: Credit crunch kills the momentum of GM hybrids.

UNHAPPY ABOUT THE ELECTIONS? What about taking some concrete steps?

HEH: Help Me Obi-Wan Obama, You’re My Only Hope! Love the Wolf Blitzer-as-Alec-Guinness photoshopping . . . .

A MODEST PROPOSAL for a real “fairness doctrine.” Heh.

BOB KRUMM on Obama, Putin, and Bolton.

DISAPPOINTED, BUT NOT PESSIMISTIC: A libertarian reflects on the election.

RICK MORAN: What I Saw at the Obama Revolution.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Mechanosynthesis using an Atomic Force Microscope. I seem to remember some experts deriding the very notion of mechanosynthesis just a few years ago.

IN THE MAIL: Jon Meacham’s American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House.