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A House Divided Reviewed by Don Wolfensberger
Don Wolfensberger on Congressional reform

A Life in Translation Reviewed by Aviya Kushner
Aviya Kushner on Isaac Bashevis Singer

American Iconoclast Reviewed by Victor Navasky
Victor Navasky on I. F. Stone

God's Children Reviewed by Lauren F. Winner
Lauren F. Winner on evangelical youth

Gray Matters Reviewed by Richard Restak
Richard Restak on brain science

Long, Strange Trip Reviewed by Eric Jones
Eric Jones on the quintessential American road trip

Never Enough Numbers Reviewed by Robert J. Samuelson
Robert J. Samuelson on the usefulness of statistics

Old Master, New Mimic Reviewed by Paul Maliszewski
Paul Maliszewski on the 20th century's greatest forger

Party til the Cows Come Home Reviewed by Aaron Mesh
Aaron Mesh on an Amish rite of passage

Sanctity for Sale Reviewed by Amy E. Schwartz
Amy E. Schwartz on the marketing of the holy land

Strung Out Reviewed by David Lindley
David Lindley on string theory's tangle

The Body Sketchers Reviewed by David Macaulay
David Macaulay on anatomical correctness

The Perils of Going Dutch Reviewed by Eric Weinberger
Eric Weinberger on the murder that transfixed Holland

The South's Hard Swallow Reviewed by Roy Reed
Roy Reed on white Southerners in the civil rights age

Fuller's Earth Reviewed by Edward Tenner
Edward Tenner reviews a biography of Buckminster Fuller, "preppy nerd and buttoned-down bohemian, green guru and globe-trotting jet fuel consumer, a college expellee who relished honorary degrees [who] proclaimed a new cosmos of structural lightness and left a personal archive of 45 tons about it."

The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe Reviewed by Edward Tenner
Edward Tenner on martial arts.



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In Essence
Selections from our review of notable articles

Contagious Crime
Researchers investigating the "broken windows theory" of crime control found that people are twice as likely to steal from a graffiti-covered mailbox as from one that's pristine.
 
The Research Boomerang
Doubling the budget of the National Institutes of Health during the Clinton and Bush administrations has had the curious effect of leading to less biomedical research.
 
The Sickening State
The most optimistic national estimates show Russia’s population falling to 136 million in 2020, down from 141 million today. Life expectancy in Russia is among the lowest in the developed world.
 
Headscarf Politics
Why would France waste resources on such an economically and politically marginal issue as banning headscarves in schools?
 
A Second Surge?
The wisdom of employing an Iraq-like surge in Afghanistan.
 
The Local Government Colossus
State governments think it makes sense to consolidate local governing bodies, but at the local level the benefits seem abstract and largely unproven.
 
The Clueless Voter
Some political scientists have called for compulsory voting to force citizens to participate in the electoral process. It won't work.
 
Spice and Status
New research reveals that spice was not used in medieval times to mask the taste of rancid meat, but rather to infuse good meat with the sweet-sour flavor that was the epitome of the fashionable cooking of the era.
 



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