The first chapter from Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism by Sheldon S. Wolin. From TLS, Edward Said still dominates debate: Robert Irwin reviews Daniel Martin Varisco's Reading Orientalism: Said and the unsaid and Ibn Warraq's Defending the West: A critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism; and a review essay on Dante, Primo Levi and the intertextualists: Language makes us capable of talking about ourselves and itself, and does one only by doing the other. How we know global warming is real: An article on the science behind human-induced climate change. The introduction to Saving the Constitution from Lawyers: How Legal Training and Law Reviews Distort Constitutional Meaning by Robert J. Spitzer. Tongue tied: Lynn Harris on the romantic, bumpy road to learning a new language. Sorry, but family history really is bunk: The current craze for genealogy reflects an unhealthy combination of snobbery and inverse snobbery, and is a poor replacement for national history. A review of Susan Neiman's Moral Clarity. From the Mises Institute, Robert Higgs on the dangers of Samuelson's economic method. If there's anything wrong with the modern male, the answer is in his wallet, not his pants. Forget Paris: Why is the capital of French snobbery starting to look like a mini-America?
