From Democratiya, a review of The Fall-Out: How a Guilty Liberal Lost His Innocence by Andrew Anthony; a review of The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy: Political Thought Since 9/11 by John Brenkman; a review of L’Impuissance Française: Une diplomatie qui a fait son temps by Isabelle Lasserre; and David Miliband on the democratic imperative. Between cathedrals and modern administrative temples, Strasbourg hasn’t yet solved the problem of its isolation. A look at how adult brains are wired to go ga-ga over babies. Feminism and the English language: Can the damage to our mother tongue be undone? A review of Eli Gottlieb’s Now You See Him. From the latest issue of Bookforum, Sketches of Spanish: Edith Grossman has reimagined the Latin American canon for readers of English, who perhaps, like she, have ventured to Latin America only via the page. A review of Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? 23 Questions From Great Philosophers by Leszek Kolakowski. More on The Commission by Philip Shenon. A review of Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling 1865-1900 by Charles Allen. A review of The Politics of Freedom by David Boaz. An article on Matt Drudge as the world's most powerful journalist. From LRB, Yonatan Mendel on how to become an Israeli journalist, and more on Flat Earth News by Nick Davies.
