The most natural thing in the world
The salty wit and wisdom of a Rural American Christian Pacifist: A review of Bill Kauffman’s Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Anti-War Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism. America’s stealth industrial policy: Free marketers want the government off business's back, but they may not realize how much of the spine is government funded. Gregory Clark reconsiders Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation. A look at what Barack Obama must do to live up to the Kennedy political legacy. How do presidential nominees choose their running mates? Here are accounts of choosing and prepping vice presidential candidates over the past 40 years. K. Anthony Appiah reviews Susan Neiman's Moral Clarity (and a review of Appiah's Experiments in Ethics). Why don't we do it in the lab? It's the most natural thing in the world, but scientific research into what really happens when boy meets girl has long been stigmatised. Marjorie Welish reviews Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions by Maggie Nelson. After decades of effort, some scientists are beginning to despair of explaining the universe — or is it universes? God may be dead, but the question of why he permits suffering lives on: James Wood reviews God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question by Bart Ehrman.
