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Chasing ghosts
Green Zone’s conspiratorial world Nighttime. Baghdad. March 19, 2003. The city bursts into light as “Shock and Awe” sweeps across the desert. Director Paul Greengrass (United 93, The Bourne Ultimatum) begins his...
Too Real for the Big Screen?
Two sci-fi allegories provoke unjust criticism Avatar, directed by James Cameron, 20th Century Fox, 2009. District 9, directed by Neill Blomkamp, TriStar Pictures, 2009. In a nationally televised speech in October 2002, President...
Revenge of the Wall St. Nerds
An exposé of the math guys who broke the economy The quants: how a new breed of math whizzes conquered Wall Street and nearly destroyed it,...
Rejecting extremes
A global examination of church and state Taming the gods: religion and democracy on three continents, by Ian Buruma, Princeton University...
Tocqueville Revisited?
A Brit Tries to Explain America The Cracked Bell: America and the Afflictions of Liberty, by Tristram Riley-Smith, Skyhorse Publishing, 2010. $26.95,...
People Power in DPRK?
Big Brother and double-think on the peninsula The Hidden People of North Korea, by Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh, Rowman & Littlefield, 2009....
The Case for Executive Power
A legal and historical defense of the Bush administration Crisis and Command, by John Yoo, Kaplan Publishing, 2009. $29.95, 544 pp. ...
The Human Factor
Eastwood does Mandela It is not hard to imagine a three-hour-plus biopic covering the trials and triumphs of Nelson Mandela. A life as epic as Mandela’s...
Play On
Music, politics, and celebrity in the age of Bono Bono jumped eagerly across the stage, swinging his microphone. The Edge launched the guitar intro for...
Pawns of History?
The question of Jewish liberalism Why Are Jews Liberals?, by Norman Podhoretz, Doubleday, 2009. $27, 295 pp. The story of Norman Podhoretz is as...
Current Issue: Summer 2010
Religion in America
- Is Godless Great? A New Heyday for American Secularism
The American Way of Faith Compromise, innovation, and tradition
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