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Don’t burn out on shame

From VQR, an essay on Ezra Pound: Foreign Correspondent; an article on Pat Robertson as The Christian with Four Aces; and learning to speak: The new age of HIV/AIDS in the other Jamaica. From LRB, Jeremy Waldron reviews Worst-Case Scenarios by Cass Sunstein; and was it like this for the Irish? Gareth Peirce on the position of Muslims in Britain. As one starlet after another goes off the rails, what kind of example are they setting for American girls? Maybe a good one. The politically incorrect Deer Hunter, thirty years later: An excerpt from God, Man & Hollywood: Politically Incorrect Cinema from The Birth of a Nation to The Passion of the Christ. Here's a message for guilty liberals: Do your best, but don’t burn out on shame. An interview with Kate Torgovnick, author of Cheer! Three Teams on a Quest for College Cheerleading's Ultimate Prize. Proponents of Intelligent Design wield a powerful new weapon: Ben Stein. Sex education regressed into the Dark Ages under Bush; which candidate will now stand up for young persons' health? The newest view of Christ — activist, politician, not very Christian — is hard to square with the Bible's; now some believers even say the faith might be better off without him. From Radical Middle, a review of books on capitalism and globalization. From Discover, an article on 3 theories that might blow up the Big Bang.