A new issue of the Cato Institute's Regulation is out. Bookmakers still prove a magnet for punters: Literary festivals are sort of a live porn show for the educated classes. An article on the challenge of writing something funny. Those of the wrong class, gender, colour or sexuality have always been left outside locally defined "humanity" — where does this leave a bill of rights? Zbigniew Brzezinski reviews War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars by Richard N. Haass (and more and more). War-opoly: How history's most popular board game helped defend the Free World. An excerpt from Craig M. Mullaney's The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education. A review of Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect by Paul Anthony Rahe. A review of Fool’s

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