THE THOUSAND-YEAR FLOOD:
The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937.
By David Welky.
Univ. of Chicago Press. 355 pp. $27.50
THE SOURCE: “Sex Offender Registries: Fear Without Function?” by Amanda Y. Agan, in Journal of Law and Economics , Feb. 2011
THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE:
Why Violence Has Declined.
By Steven Pinker.
Viking. 802 pp. $40
THE SOURCE: “Drinking Games: Can Russia Admit It Has a Problem?” by Heidi Brown, in World Policy Journal, Summer 2011.
DENG XIAOPING AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF CHINA.
By Ezra F. Vogel.
Belknap/Harvard. 876 pp. $39.95
THE SOURCE: “Neurotrash” by Raymond Tallis, in Prospect, June 2011.
To see how the world will eventually right today’s massive trade imbalances, look to the Atlantic, not the Pacific.
Thousands of soldiers are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with deep psychological scars. Posttraumatic stress disorder is a common diagnosis—but is it the right one?