The Wal-Mart Catechism
A new book on the discount chain’s down-home early days doesn’t tell us much about its status as the world’s largest — and most controversial — retailer.
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Autumn of the Republic?
Three books suggest America has slipped into a polarized state of undermined self-government. None convincingly suggests how we can slip back out.
Looking Back in Anger
An esteemed professor rightly takes AIDS denialists to task, but his valuable history of the movement is at times a caustic read.
Botox for the Brain
A Harvard psychologist argues that our mindless acceptance of stereotypes leads to premature aging.
Mental Problems
New book Healing the Broken Mind by Timothy Kelly demonstrates how to begin fixing America's utterly failed mental health care system.
Iran: From Axis to Ally?
A new book says that Iran's leadership is opportunistic, not evil, and therefore open to imaginative American policy initiatives.
What If There Was a Class War and Nobody Showed Up?
In a new book that questions the concept of 'class war,' two academics argue that income inequality is not a partisan issue but an American problem, and that citizens should 'make a ruckus' about it.
A Government at Risk?
Wonks examine the state of American self-governance; little hopeful audacity is found.
Research Undiscoveries
The book "It's Great! Oops, No It Isn't" explains how different research and analysis methods lead to "definitive" studies with opposite conclusions, offers remedies for the problem and remains, throughout, a surprisingly good read.
Meet the Real Islam
History professor and blogger Juan Cole succeeds at debunking American myths about the Muslim world. It's the policy prescription that's trite.