From the latest issue of Policy Review, Amitai Etzioni on Religion and Social Order: Filling the gap when autocrats fall; and a review of The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack by Ronald Kessler. A review of The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean Carroll. A review of Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making by David Rothkopf. More on X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything From Sucking by Jeff Gordinier. Wendy Lesser reviews Mark Richardson's The Collected Prose of Robert Frost. More and more and more and more on Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence (and three more interviews). A review of We-Think by Charles Leadbeater (and more). From The Nation, Rick Perlstein on how the conservative noise machine is coming around to support McCain — if it can keep its stories straight; and a review of books on the history of the first women's rights campaign. For some TV viewers, storylines of adultery, murder, war, rape, etc. are not reprehensible enough to prompt a channel change; two men kissing, however, is another matter. How to defuse a human bomb: What would it take to persuade a terrorist to give up the life? A growing number of specialists are trying to find out.
