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    “Did you suspect that Donald J. Trump has long been a crook and surrounded by crooks?

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    “In the past, mass violation of privacy was technically difficult but now is easy. . . .

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    Wizards, Aliens, and Starships is a great book by itself or as a starting point for exploring the physics of space exploration as well as the classics in science fiction.”

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    Sociologists, criminologists, and other scholars regularly study and debate what works about the American criminal justice system and what doesn't.

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    “To our eyes, though, it is possible to detect an obscure but even more compelling reason for the massive appeal of the New Atheism: it constitutes a new and powerful creation mythology that—like m

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    The Written World and the Unwritten World reminds us why we write, why we read, and how that makes us human.”

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    “If people read An Impossible Dream: Reagan, Gorbachev, and a World Without the Bomb and gather its deeper lessons, perhaps the race to Armageddon can be slowed if not stopped and

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    “Ted Stewart has his own set of religious and societal values, and he explains them well as part of his tirade against the current Supreme Court.

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    “. . . this quick read is chock full of complications.”

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    “To Douglass, Johnson was hardly a ‘Moses,’ not this man who boasted that, while he had owned slaves, at least he had never sold them.

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    It might seem impossible to turn the concept of Al Qaeda getting nuclear weapons into a boring novel. But Bob Graham manages to do just that.

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    Conformity is both necessary for a society and one of its grave dangers. Cass Sunstein has been interested in this tension for a significant part of his career.

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    “Liberals, conservatives, and anyone else with a passionate point of view all need to learn to laugh at themselves. The B.S. of A. could be a good start . . .”

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    History of Violence is not, as the title suggests, a big, fat tome about human aggression, brute force, and cruelty, though it describes a world in which violence shapes the life of the na

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    Singing Like Germans is a superb piece of historical research enlivened by its author’s deep fascination with her subject matter.”

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    The Best American Short Stories anthology has been published yearly and without interruption since 1915.

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    The United States of America is home to over 3,000 jails. On any given day, these jails hold over 700,000 people. More than 12 million individuals pass through an American jail each year.

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    Readers be warned: this review of Bryan Batt’s She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My Mother, will violate the first rule of book reviewing laid down by John Updike: “Try to understand what the author

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    “readers will find Nothing is True and Everything Is Possible not only unsettling but also difficult to put down.”

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