From Daedalus, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (Wisconsin): Anti-intellectualism as Romantic Discourse; and Sarah Song (UC-Berkeley): What Does It Mean to Be an American? A review of A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom by Jedediah Purdy. A review of Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea by Joshua Horwitz and Casey Anderson. A review of Capture the Flag: A Political History of American Patriotism by Woden Teachout. A review of The American Patriot’s Bible: The Word of God and the Shaping of America by Richard G. Lee. A review of Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream by Leonard Zeskind. White Man’s Burden: The Dallas suburb of Irving struggles with its sudden diversity. Slate goes inside the business of human smuggling on the Mexican Border. Border Wars: Yasha Levine on a day in the life of a virtual vigilante. A review of books on American Muslim life. What’s American about Chinatown? An interview with Bonnie Tsui, author of American Chinatown. A review of Ethnoburb: The New Ethnic Community in Urban America by Wei Li. Science is telling us that ethnic diversity causes significant problems by diminishing valuable social capital — what then should we do?
