From PUP, here's Rick Perlstein's introduction to Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents; the introduction to When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security by Edwin Amenta; the introduction to American Mythos: Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short by Robert Wuthnow; the first chapter from Moral Disquiet and Human Life by Monique Canto-Sperber; the first chapter from Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge by Roxanne L. Euben; the introduction to The Medieval Prison: A Social History by G. Geltner; and the first chapter from Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry by Fukagawa Hidetoshi and Tony Rothman. From Asia Times, Spengler on Sufism, sodomy and Satan. From Smart Set, an article on the death of the monoculture. From Dissent, Daniel A. Bell and Michael Walzer debate democracy promotion in China; a review of books on the conservative crack-up; Timothy Canova on the legacy of the Clinton Bubble; and an article on how to resist the growing threat to US education. For most people, college is a waste of time, so why not have job credentials that actually mean something? From Education Review, a review essay on the university at the end of the last century; and a review essay on John Dewey.
