Jared A. Goldstein (Roger Williams): Can Popular Constitutionalism Survive the Tea Party Movement? From The American Spectator, is America in decline? A symposium; and a review of The Decline and Fall of the American Republic by Bruce Ackerman. New polling data shows strong American support for the UN. Don't shrug this atlas, the Real State of America Atlas, that is — yes, charts can be beach reading. Jefferson’s Mistake: A review of The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution by Jack P. Greene. A review of The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture by David Mamet (and more and more). Gavis McInnes on the 12-step plan to restore American machismo. Invasion of the bodybuidlers: Macho men are back with a vengeance — and they’re making the USA feel good again. From TNR, Christine Stansell reviews Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling, ed. by Linda Greenhouse and Reva B. Siegel; America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril and Liberation by Elaine Tyler May; and Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America by Sara Dubow. Ken Burns' "Civil War": How the documentary changed the way we think about the war. When did greed become the core engine of American greatness? A review of Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White. A review of The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties by David K. Shipler. The American middle class, concludes a new study from the ad industry's top trade journal, has essentially become irrelevant — in a deeply unequal America, if you don't make $200,000, you don't matter. A review of America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation by Andrew Goldfield.
