A review of Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear by Dan Gardner and Panicology by Simon Briscoe and Hugh Aldersey-Williams. How do you make a terrorist talk? An interview with Jack Cloonan on how to break a terrorist. Bernard-Henri Lévy on what George W. Bush has that Nicolas Sarkozy does not. Foreign Policy surveys more than 3,400 active and retired officers at the highest levels of command about the state of the U.S. military. Some doctors suggest that the modern definition of death is wrong — and that the mistake is costing lives. More on Susan Jacoby's The Age of American Unreason. A review of God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre by Richard Grant. Philip Jenkins on home-grown terrorism: Current political conditions are conducive to violent domestic extremism. An article

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