From The New Yorker, a review of Benny Morris' 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War; and an article on rescuing the victims of the global sex trade. Dahlia Lithwick on getting away with torture: The failures of the legal system for both the torturers and the tortured. You’re an author? Me too! Fewer people are reading books, but these days, more are publishing their own. A look at how savage pirates reign on the world's high seas (and more). The Coming Euroinvasion: First they came for the iPods; then the Europeans snatched up condos in Manhattan — now they’re coming for the companies. A review of Dangerous World: Natural Disasters, Manmade Catastrophes, and the Future of Human Survival by Marq de Villiers. A review of Clinton in Exile: A President Out of the White House by Carol Felsenthal. Craig Seligman reviews Brian Hall's Fall of Frost. Give me the lesson without the spin: A high school student finds conservative bias in his American government textbook (and a response by James Q. Wilson). Harvey Mansfield on how without sexual boundaries, students feel pressure to appear more promiscuous than they are. A review of Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader. Hillary vs. Barack is like Yale's Lady Macbeth versus Harvard's Billy Budd. Muslim rebel sisters Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Irshad Manji are at odds with Islam and each other.
