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Spoof operas and fighting dwarfs

Andras Takacs-Santa (HAS): Barriers to Environmental Concern. Surely if baseball, football, basketball, and rock and roll all get to have halls of fame, so should bookstores. A review of A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy by Robert B. Talisse. A review of The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus by Charles King. A review of Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement by Clayton Sinyai. An excerpt from Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War by Hugo Slim. A review of A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902 by David J. Silbey. Travel is so broadening; it shows you other nations' narrow-mindedness, so that when you get home you can see your own more clearly. A review of Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy by Alfred W. Crosby. A review of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age by Maggie Jackson. A review of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew Bacevich. His name will always be synonymous with his TV talk show, but there's more to Jerry Springer than spoof operas and fighting dwarfs. A review of Deception in Markets: An Economic Analysis. An interview with Bernard Lewis on the two biggest myths about Islam.