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Nothing but a chromosome

Dionne L. Koller (Baltimore): How the United States Government Sacrifices Athletes' Constitutional Rights in the Pursuit of National Prestige. From Military Review, Christopher Housenick (American U): Winning Battles but Losing Wars: Three Ways Successes in Combat Promote Failures in Peace. From Nebula, a special issue on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Communist loser: A review of Eric Hobsbawm's On Empire: America, War and Global Supremacy (and more). From Re.Press, you can download The Radical Critique of Liberalism: In Memory of a Vision by Toula Nicolacopoulos. The introduction to The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It by Robert J. Shiller (and an interview).  The case for single payer national health insurance: A chapter from Ten Excellent Reasons for National Health Insurance. From News & Letters, an article on healthcare and Marx's view of the future. Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton — she is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger. Benny Morris reviews Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History by Andrew G. Bostom. An interview with Orhan Pamuk: "Winning the Nobel Prize made everything political". An interview with writer and pioneer of cyberpunk William Gibson on American politics, the online age and Voodoo.