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Four myths about the weather

J.B. Watson, Jr. and Walter H. Scalen, Jr. (Stephen E Austin): "Dining with the devil": The Unique Secularization of American Evangelical Churches. The Hill interviews Norman Lear. From Index on Censorship, a review of The Assault on Liberty: What Went Wrong With Rights by Dominic Raab. A review of Media in the Digital Age by John Pavlik. A review of Brotherman: The Odyssey Of Black Men In America — An Anthology. From evolution comes literature: Can we prove what we read and write is rooted in biology? (and more on The Art Instinct). Bernard Mergen, author of Weather Matters: An American Cultural History Since 1900, on four myths about the weather. It is monstrously wrong that patients cannot ask for euthanasia: Soran Reader, a moral philosopher facing the prospect of losing her life, memory or thought, is outraged that the law bars living wills. A review of Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America by Louis Adamic. Does Israel need think tanks? Hannah Meyers investigates. Calls to work together for the common good during the current crises have been emanating at breakneck pace from the Obama administration; academics discuss how to get the results of a Roosevelt, and not a Carter. The Observer profiles The Thatchers. The crisis of global capitalism and the environment: An interview with John Bellamy Foster.