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FEB 11 2008

People and pants in the borderless world

From Policy Review, an article on doing justice to Zacarias Moussaoui: Neither a madman nor an aspiring martyr but an enemy. GodTube.com: Will a new Christian-based social networking site help spread the gospel? The Grammy in Mathematics: Mathematician Jamie Howarth nominated for award for restoring the only known recording of a live Woody Guthrie performance. A review of Mechanisms of Democracy: Institutional Design Writ Small by Adrian Vermeule. Wal-Mart, the new Washington: Look who’s governmentizing the private sector. From National Geographic, a special section on how Six Degrees Could Change the World. Akhil Reed Amar on the Constitution and the candidates: What would the framers say? A review of Two Histories of England By Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, ed. David Starkey. Uncommon knowledge: Here are surprising insights from the social sciences. When does the experience of pain begin? Anti-abortion activists aren’t the only ones to argue that it may be in the womb. A review of Embryo: A Defense of Human Life by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen. A review of Sissy Nation: How America Became a Culture of Wimps & Stoopits by John Strausbaugh. A review of Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade by Rachel Louise Snyder.

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