From the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, Muriel Morisey (Temple): Flag Desecration, Religion and Patriotism; Laurie C. Kadoch (Vermont): So Help Me God: Reflections on Language, Thought, and the Rules of Evidence Remembered; and an essay on religious home-schools: That's not a monkey on your back, it's a compelling state interest. From the last issue of Paradigm: Journal of the Textbook Colloquium, an article on Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace: Comparative treatments in Soviet and post-Soviet textbooks; and textbook Reds? How East Germans look back on their classroom schoolbooks; coming apart: Americans recall their school history texts since the 1960s; and an essay on economics education as story telling. From Reset, a special issue on the Oriana Phenomenon, a sociological perspective. From TNR, Niall Ferguson and Amartya Sen debate imperial illusions. A review of Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World by Peter Chapman. A review of Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World by Dan Koeppel. A review of The Meaning of Sunglasses: A Guide to (Almost) All Things Fashionable by Hadley Freeman. The inaugural issue of Luna Park is now out. A review of The Fattening of America: How the Economy Makes Us Fat, If It Matters, and What to Do About It by Eric Finkelstein and Laurie Zuckerman.
