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The war on terror, American government and atheism

Jack Snyder, Robert Shapiro and Yaeli Bloch-Elkon (Columbia): Free Hand Abroad: Divide and Rule at Home. An interview with Tom Farer, author of Confronting Global Terrorism: The Elements of a Liberal Grand Strategy. An interview with General Anthony Zinni, author of The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose. A review of Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War by Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss. The world's caped crusader: Robert Kagan on how the United States is the best hope to help steer nations through dangerous times. Enlightenment values of truth and rationality have been hijacked and wrongly used to justify the “war on terror”, argues Dan Hind. An interview with David Livingstone Smith, author of The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War.

Road kill: Why are we so worried about terrorism when so many more people are dying on our highways? A review of The New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic and International Governance. A review of Wounds That Do Not Bind: Victim-Based Perspectives on the Death Penalty. A review of Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in US History by Keith E. Whittington. Ouster By the People: The nation should be able to remove by an orderly constitutional process any president with an unyielding commitment to failed policies and an inability to renew the country's hope.

From Free Inquiry, a look at why democracy needs naturalism; and did you know secularization has been dead for seven years now? Not so fast. Based on developments on a number of fronts, it seems clear that secularization is anything but dead. It is our religious history that has shaped the three responses to loss of faith: Despair, Optimism, and Rebellion. Harvey Mansfield on atheist tracts: God, they're predictable. Heard ‘Round the Web: Wayward Christian soldiers and a blogging Pope?