From The University Bookman, Katherine Dalton on the "Time" of Elizabeth Madox Roberts; an essay on Newton Booth Tarkington, neglected Hoosier; an article on Robert Traver: Anatomy of a Fisherman; a review of Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies by Ginger Strand; a review of Say It One Time for the Broken Hearted: Country Soul in the American South by Barney Hoskyns; Donald Davidson and the South’s conservatism: An excerpt from Russell Kirk's The Politics of Prudence; a review of Contrary Country: A Chronicle of Vermont by Ralph Nading Hill; Gerald Russello in on Brooklyn’s side; and an interview with Christine Rosen on examining our technological assumptions. Is talk cheap? Thomas Sowell on Barack and Adolf. An article on the slow death of handwriting. From SciAm, a special section on the science of love. From The Futurist, two British researchers offer an ambitious plan to save the world from global warming; Reinventing morality: Evolutionary biology and neuroscience are adding to our understanding of a historically unscientific area (and an interview with Marc Hauser); a review of Imagining America in 2033: How the Country Put Itself Together after Bush by Herbert J. Gans; and a review of Free Market Madness: Why Human Nature Is at Odds with Economics — And Why It Matters by Peter A. Ubel.

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