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FEB 4 2008

Life’s too f*ing short

From Political Science Quarterly, Jeffrey M. Cavanaugh (Miss. State): From the ‘‘Red Juggernaut’’ to Iraqi WMD: Threat Inflation and How It Succeeds in the United States. Back to school: It is difficult to know whether it is a drug itself or a drug culture that attracts certain people to certain substances. More and more on Top Tips for Girls by Kate Reardon and Life's too F*ing Short by Janet Street-Porter. From 21C Magazine, a look at how panopticism is slowly subjugating the social world that we all call the 21st century. From National Journal, forget any ideas about brokered conventions; the GOP and Democratic contests are going to be won on the front lines of the primary states. A Western split within Christianity? The real scandal was the way Benedict's anti-rationalism was warmly received by so many intellectuals. Where is the love: Students eschew campus romance. Susan Faludi reviews Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary Clinton. Child-man in the Promised Land: Today’s single young men hang out in a hormonal limbo between adolescence and adulthood. A review of Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion by Francisco Ayala. A review of Thank You For Arguing by Jay Heinrichs. From the Phyllis Schlafly Report, a look at the liberal plans to subvert the U.S. Constitution. From Esquire, an essay on The Worst Building in the History of Mankind.

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