From TLS, Zion story: A review of books on the most contentious communal struggle on earth today. The introduction to A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel by Gudrun Kramer. A review of Churchill's Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft by Michael Makovsky. An interview with Randall Collins, author of Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory. Terry Teachout puts forward Teachout's First Law of Artistic Dynamics: "The best way to make a bad work of art is to try to make a great one". Eve Fairbanks on the strange passivity of Howard Dean. In politics, like everywhere else, generations have a natural fluidity — it can be hard to say where one group ends and the next begins. The good news from America: Most environmentalists are indeed leftists who support

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