From TAP, a review of On Suicide Bombing by Talal Asad and Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror by Mia Bloom. Science and Terrorism: We use science and technology for the management and improvement of our lives – yet it appears that our increasing technical sophistication also enables small groups and individuals to cause great harm. A prescription for terror: Is there a connection between the study of science and a readiness to commit terrorist acts? A War Best Served Cold: Did George Kennan know the best way to fight terrorism?
Stacking the Court: The method most frequently employed to bring the Supreme Court to heel has been increasing or decreasing its membership. Benchwarmers: Everything you never wanted to know about picking judges for an important court you've never heard of. Throw restraint to the wind: And other ways for the legal left to rein in the Roberts Court. Despite his promises to do the opposite, under Chief Justice John Roberts the Supreme Court has become more divided than at any point in recent history. But is that such a bad thing?
An interview with Richard Land, author of The Divided States of America? What Liberals AND Conservatives are Missing in the God-and-Country Shouting Match. A review of A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell. An interview with Elliot D. Cohen, author of The Last Days of Democracy: How Big Media and Power-hungry Government Are Turning America into a Dictatorship. Crisis of the Old Liberal Order: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who died in February at the age of 89, spent 60 years being famous as an emblem and arbiter of American liberalism, though his importance waned as liberalism's did, writes William Voegeli.
A review of The Shawnees and the War for America by Colin G. Calloway and The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears by Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green. A review of Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider CSS Alabama by Stephen Fox. A review of What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War by Chandra Manning. A review of Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans by Jean Pfaelzer.
