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Better than everyone

Joseph Burke and Catherine Ruth Pakaluk (Ave Maria): The Contraceptive Revolution Revisited: A Neo-Classical Model of Sex and Fertility. From Dissent, Jeffrey C. Isaac on public inquiry and democracy: Should the National Science Foundation fund political science research? A world without Jews: Adam Kirsch reviews Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition by David Nirenberg. An interview with Jeffrey Miron on why prohibition is more dangerous than selling drugs in supermarkets. David Kamin on the Congress-Does-Nothing Deficit Reduction Plan: How “bracket creep” (the good kind) could make the long-term fiscal outlook better than everyone thinks. Brookings launches a "Mini-CIA". Sure, digital humanists can count how often Huckleberry Finn says "ain't", but that's not the point; Scott McLemee looks at a caricature — and the real thing.