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Anglosphere comparisons

Sarah Beresford (Lancaster): Seeking Secularism: Resisting Religiosity in Marriage and Divorce — A Comparative Study of England and America. Brian K. Pinaire (Lehigh): Who Let the Dog Out? On the British Roots of American Bounty Hunting. Why do some Americanisms irritate people? British people are used to the stream of Americanisms entering the language. The Anglo-American alliance remains the world’s most powerful bilateral partnership — what lies in store for the special relationship? Suckered by America: Conrad Black reviews Doing the Continental: A New Canadian-American Relationship by David Dyment. What would it take for America and Canada to fight? More than a hockey game. Changing luck and North America’s wars: As the continent emerges from its luckiest geopolitical century, it will have to adjust, in culture and capabilities, to a far more difficult next hundred years. What's the point of preventing American education theorist William Ayers from entering Canada? From Inside Story, a review of The Australian Pub by Diane Kirkby, Tanja Luckins and Chris McConville and Community: Building Modern Australia; and has ANZUS passed its use-by date? My Summer at an Indian Call Center: Lessons learned — Americans are hotheads, Australians are drunks, and never say where you're calling from. Anthony Fowler (Harvard): Turnout Matters: Evidence from Compulsory Voting in Australia. Rebecca Gill (UNLV): Consensus or Ambivalence? Why Court Traditions Matter. Adrian Vermeule (Harvard): The Atrophy of Constitutional Powers. Razib Khan on Anglosphere comparisons. Locke, Darwin, and America’s future: Peter Augustine Lawler on rights, nature, and progress (and a review of Modern and American Dignity: Who We Are as Persons, and What That Means for Our Future).