The inaugural issue of the Journal of World-Historical Information is out. Gregory S. Alexander (Cornell): Unborn Communities. Rick Warren imports American-style evangelism — and the gospel of adoption — to Rwanda: An excerpt from The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking and the New Gospel of Adoption by Kathryn Joyce. Emmet Scott on Orwell, Huxley and the emerging totalitarianism. Mike Konczal on how liberal wonk blogging could be your life (and more by Paul Krugman). Tristram Hunt on how history is where the great battles of public life are now being fought. That monkey don't swim: Frank Jacobs on maps, sex and violence. “Democracy may have had its day”: Donald Kagan, Yale's great classicist, gives his final lecture, fighting as ever for Western civilization. Megan O’Branski reviews Fat Lives: A Feminist Psychological Exploration by Irmgard Tischner.
