Weekend reads.

Canada's scenic passenger rail revival. (Monte Paulsen, Canadian Geographic)

Dear Jack Layton. (Heather Cleland, Walrus)

The scourge of "peak oil." (Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera)

It's official: rock is now a mere niche genre, with the death of WRXP, Gotham's last rock station. (Michael Idov, New York)

Xenophobia has crept into mainstream Scandinavia. (Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail)

How historic leaders have coped with depression. (Nasser Ghaemi, WSJ)

The rise of the radical right. (Jamie Bartlett and Jonathan Birdwell, Foreign Policy)

Enough about Britain, time to scrutinize Murdoch's U.S. behavior. (Michael Massing, New York Review of Books)

A parting shot at Murdoch by the late U.K. screenwriter Dennis Potter ("The Singing Detective") (video) (DangerousMinds.com) "Rupert was my cancer." 

How to fix humanities grad schools, starting with the exploitation of academic temps. (William Pannapacker, Slate)

Why sexting has become the love letter on campus. (Belinda Luscombe, Time)

The West's complicity in the disastrous one-child practices that are depopulating the developing world of women. (Mara Hvistendahl, Foreign Policy)

How Google dominates us. (James Gleick, New York Review of Books)

How pollsters rig opinion surveys. (Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias)

"Sorry, son, I'm not an outdoors guy." (Graeme McRanor, Globe and Mail)