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Save the males

From Mother Jones, a special section on the coming prison meltdown. Online writing is a typographical and grammatical mess — should we fix it? Does the world need another indie band? There's life, and then there's lifestyle journalism. Barbara Ehrenreich has been called a Marxist just for writing that the US is not a classless society. Allan J. Lichtman on how conservatives are in denial about their history. An interview with James Carse, author of The Religious Case Against Belief. The lesson of the Friedman Institute, even before it opens, is that we could use more forceful theories from academia. More and more and more on Ark of the Liberties: America and the World by Ted Widmer. An interview with Orit Bashkin, author of The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq. A review of Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade by Jagdish Bhagwati. A review of A World Without Bees by Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum. More and more on James Wood's How Fiction Works. A review of Save the Males: Why Men Matter, Why Women Should Care by Kathleen Parker. A review of U. S. Vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America’s Security by J. Peter Scoblic (and more). The monoculture is dead; in another guise, however, its flattening effect on non-Western culture is, sadly, thriving.