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… Robert D. Kaplan [A]n embattled democracy . . . soon becomes the victim of its own war propaganda. It then tends to … politics and personalities? The 2001 reissue of Kaplan’s Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and … places Kaplan was writing about, I swallowed his essential points even as I grimaced at the castor-oil hectoring that …

… congressional sessions. As a Colombian-born woman, I welcomed this new female face in the political arena. She spoke … know then that in addition to being Colombian, she was also French. That Betancourt was taken hostage by the FARC … used). There were three types of retentions: Generals, soldiers, and policemen were taken as prisoners of war. …

… of servants and peasants he’s at his best. He’s at his windiest when sympathizing with the love-sick upper-class Mitya … You Think), by Jonathan Haidt. Basic Books, December 2005. $26 Jonathan Haidt wants to make you happy. Or, rather, he … He cites recent studies in psychology to demonstrate his points and bolsters his arguments with fresh insights and …

… a bind of its own, the wadding of already loaded public rituals and private relationships with yet more layers of … diverse, with knotted, enigmatic, but generally low-octane complaints. Lauren and Sarah have opened their relationship … idea that a story is better, truer, more useful if audience participation is an explicit feature of its design.  …

… Children of the Middle Ages Medieval Children. By Nicholas Orme. Yale University Press. … the argument suspect. In different ways, and from different points of view, by pointing out the misuse of the sources, … is a traditional insular history, without any effort to compare it with developments on the continent. Even so, the …