From The Washington Monthly, love of family inspired William Jefferson to do great things — it also explains that $90,000 in his freezer. Don't TNT Me, Bro: William Saletan on the moral logic of suicide bombing. Sunset in America: Sean Wilentz on the end of the age of Reagan. A blood libel on our civilization: John Derbyshire on Ben Stein's "Expelled". A review of Body Shopping: The Economy Fuelled by Flesh and Blood by Donna Dickenson. A review of The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi by Aram Roston. The Memory Addict: Augusten Burroughs doesn’t just write about his past — he holds seances. Douglas Mullins reviews Nathaniel Mackey’s Bass Cathedral. What lessons can be learned from past attempts to oust seemingly immovable oppressors, and do the lessons apply in the case of Robert Mugabe? The man who invented Mars: Long before the space race and space shuttle, a brilliant, wealthy, charming Boston Brahmin named Percival Lowell popularized the idea that we are not alone in the universe. A review of Do Travel Writers Go To Hell? A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics and Professional Hedonism by Thomas Kohnstamm. A review of Misha Glenny's McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld.
