From TLS, Zion story: A review of books on the most contentious communal struggle on earth today. The introduction to A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel by Gudrun Kramer. A review of Churchill's Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft by Michael Makovsky. An interview with Randall Collins, author of Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory. Terry Teachout puts forward Teachout's First Law of Artistic Dynamics: "The best way to make a bad work of art is to try to make a great one". Eve Fairbanks on the strange passivity of Howard Dean. In politics, like everywhere else, generations have a natural fluidity — it can be hard to say where one group ends and the next begins. The good news from America: Most environmentalists are indeed leftists who support the redistribution of wealth and believe in a simpler lifestyle. A review of Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present by Lisa Appignanes (and more and more and more and more and more and more). The End of History: The Atlantic recently asked a group of foreign-policy authorities about the prospects for democracy around the world. Research suggests the settlement of the Americas was a 3-act play. Has The Remnant gone soft, or has it merely recognized a monumental turning point in history?
