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Piecewise approximations to reality

From Idea, Milan Zafirovski (North Texas): Radical Puritanism "Rediscovered": Elements and Legacies of Extremism and Anti-Egalitarianism. Keith J. Gomes (Carleton): An Intellectual Genealogy of the Just War: A Survey of Christian Political Thought on the Justification of Warfare. The Next Front: Seven years after 9/11, John McCain still doesn't get the war on terrorism. The Code of the West: Ryan Lyzza on what Barack Obama can learn from Bill Ritter. From Search, naming moons can be tricky business, especially when the gods get involved; Pleistocene dreams: A radical conservation idea intrigues and frightens an un-wild world; an interview with Daniel Dennett, "dangerous" man, and what happens to religion when it is biologized? From The Walrus, an article on The Other Darwin: The nineteenth-century naturalist gets emotional. A review of Re-engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality by William Wimsatt and Evidence and Evolution: The Logic Behind the Science by Elliott Sober. In the not-so-distant future, these six drugs already in the works will change how we live and how we die. Of victims and vixens: An article on the feminist clash over prostitution. English, the omnivorous tongue: A review of The Secret Life of Words by Henry Hitching. Rick Moody reviews The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin.