You can download the latest issue of Studies in Social and Political Thought. Ronald K. L. Collins (Washington): Comedy and Liberty: The Life and Legacy of Lenny Bruce. Just two weeks before DSM-5 is due to appear, the National Institute of Mental Health, the world's largest funding agency for research into mental health, has indicated that it is withdrawing support for the manual. Richard E. Ericson reviews Funding Loyalty: The Economics of the Communist Party by Eugenia Belova and Valery Lazarev. If I can call a Muslim an “Islamist”, can I call a Christian a “Christianist”? Stephen Phelan reports from Onagawa, Japan, two years after a tsunami destroyed the town. How did a man who got so many things wrong become an intellectual celebrity in his own lifetime? Paula Findlen reviews A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change by John Glassie.
