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Time to take a hard look

Dennis Prager on global moral decline and who’s to blame for it. Is Progress always progress? Thomas Meaney reviews The Flight of the Intellectuals by Paul Berman (and more and more and more and more and more and more). Christopher Hitchens on Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan, Somali refugee Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Flight of the Intellectuals. A review of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Nomad: From Islam to America. Is Dora the Explorer an illegal immigrant? From FishbowlNY, an interview with Josh Tyrangiel, editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, on the state of business and financial reporting (and part 2 and part 3). The population debate gets personal: It's time to take a hard look at the environmental ramifications of First World procreation. From India's Frontline, a review essay on rebels and the state: There is an underlying pattern to the rise, sustenance and demise of sub-national movements. Is social networking the future of voting? New York profiles John Stossel, Libertarian newsman; and does Warren Buffett deserve his outsider rep? George Cotkin on his book Morality’s Muddy Waters: Ethical Quandaries in Modern America. A review of The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law by Deborah L. Rhode. From The Nation, a review of Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750 by Jonathan Israel. David Ferriero, the national archivist, oversees a collection that includes original copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Extremism in the defense of Rand Paul is no vice: A healthy democratic society should be grateful for those who are extremists in the defense of liberty — even when the extremists are wrong. An interview with Adrienne Mayor on books on enemies of ancient Rome.