College football success upends boys’ grades, but girls may actually benefit.
EVERY LOVE STORY IS A GHOST STORY:
A Life of David Foster Wallace.
By D. T. Max.
Viking. 356 pp. $27.95
THE SOURCE: “Tocqueville and America” by James Q. Wilson, in The Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2012.
THE SOURCE: “Read My Lips” by Chiara Barzini, in Harper’s Magazine, May 2012.
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THE GENERALS:
American Military Command From World War II to Today.
By Thomas E. Ricks.
Penguin Press. 576 pp. $32.95
THE SOURCE: “Can International Election Monitoring Harm Governance?” by Alberto Simpser and Daniela Donno, in The Journal of Politics, April 2012.
THE SOURCE: “Growth of Consumer-Directed Health Plans to One-Half of All Employer-Sponsored Insurance Could Save $57 Billion Annually” by Amelia M. Haviland, M. Susan Marquis, Roland D. McDevitt, and Neeraj Sood, in Health Affairs, May 2012.
THE SOURCE: “The American Public’s Energy Choice” by Stephen Ansolabehere and David M. Konisky, in Daedalus, Spring 2012.
THE SOURCE: “Toward a Cultural History of Scholastic Disputation” by Alex J. Novikoff, in The American Historical Review, April 2012.