From The Washington Spectator, Lou Dubose on Ralph Reed, John McCain and CNN. Jonathan Rauch on how our inevitable withdrawal from Iraq could poison American politics for a generation. From Public Resistance, Valerie Scatamburlo-D’Annibale (Windsor): Peddling Patriotic Correctness in the Post-9/11 Era: The Intercollegiate Studies Institute; and Andrew Austin (Green Bay): The Truth According to Bud Peterson: A Case of Enforcing Patriotic Correctness. From Onearth, a look at how discoveries about the impact of the environment on our DNA could revolutionize our concept of illness. From Techne, a special section on technology and normativity. From Applied Semiotics, an article on the "emoticon" and its roles in impression formation. America's whites-only towns: An article on the rise of "sundown towns"

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