No Place for Faith

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In Essence

The Swing Vote in 2000

"America’s Forgotten Majority" by Joel Rogers and Ruy Teixeira, in The Atlantic Monthly (June 2000), 77 N. Washington St., Boston, Mass. 02114.

The Hartz Mountain

"What Is Still Living in ‘Consensus’ History and Pluralist Social Theory" by Leo P. Ribuffo, in American Studies International (Feb. 2000), George Washington Univ., Washington, D.C. 20052; "The Perils of Particularism: Political History after Hartz" by John Gerring, in Journal of Policy History (1999: No. 3), St. Louis Univ., 3800 Lindell Blvd., P.O. Box 56907, St. Louis, Mo. 63156-0907.

Locking Away the Future

"Lockbox Government" by Alasdair Roberts, in Government Executive (May 2000), 1501 M St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.

Fighting Bio-Terrorism

"Bad Medicine for Biological Terror" by Andrew J. Bacevich, in Orbis (Spring 2000), Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1528 Walnut St., Ste. 610, Philadelphia, Pa. 19102–3684.

How Ideas RuIe the World

"The Religious Roots of Modern International Relations" by Daniel Philpott, in World Politics (Jan. 2000), Bendheim Hall, Princeton Univ., Princeton, N.J. 08544.

The New 'Jungle'

"The Jungle Revisited" by Keith Nunes, in Meat & Poultry (Dec. 1999), 4800 Main St., Ste. 100, Kansas City, Mo. 64112.

Jack versus Jill

"The War against Boys" by Christina Hoff Sommers, in The Atlantic Monthly (May 2000), 77 N. Washington St., Boston, Mass. 02114.

What's in a Face?

"The Mythology of the Face-Lift" by Wendy Doniger, in Social Research (Spring 2000), New School Univ., 65 Fifth Ave., Rm. 354, New York, N.Y. 10003.

Let Sprawl Sprawl

"How Cities Green the Planet" by Peter Huber and Mark P. Mills, in City Journal (Winter 2000), Manhattan Institute, 52 Vanderbilt Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017.

Eyes on the Prize

"Journalism’s Prize Culture" by Alicia Shepard, in American Journalism Review (Apr. 2000), Univ. of Maryland, 1117 Journalism Bldg., College Park, Md. 20742–7111.

The No-News Media

"Media to Government: Drop Dead" by Stephen Hess, in Brookings Review (Winter 2000), 1775 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.

Big Brother or Small Beer?

"Prime-time Propaganda," "Propaganda for Dollars," and "The Drug War Gravy Train" by Daniel Forbes, in Salon (Jan. 13, 14, Mar. 31, 2000), www.salon.com, and "White House Blasts Salon" by Robert Housman, in Salon (Apr. 20, 2000), www.salon.com.

God Knows

" ‘ We Speak to God with Our Thoughts’: Abelard and the Implications of Private Communication with God" by Susan R. Kramer, in Church History (Mar. 2000), Divinity School, Duke Univ., Box 90975, Durham, N.C. 27708–0975.

Neandertal Scientists

"Who Were the Neandertals?" by Kate Wong, in Scientific American (Apr. 2000), 415 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017–1111.

Paging Dr. Joe Camel

"The Good Side of Nicotine" by Mairin B. Brennan, in Chemical & Engineering News (Mar. 27, 2000), 1155 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.

Animal Numeracy

"What Do Animals Think about Numbers?" by Marc D. Hauser, in American Scientist (Mar.–Apr. 2000), P.O. Box 13975, Research Triangle Park, N.C. 27709–3975.

What's in a Meme?

"The Meme Metaphor" by Mark Jeffreys, in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (Winter 2000), Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Journals Div., 2715 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Md. 21218–4363.

The Other Daumier

"‘Strange Seriousness’: Discovering Daumier" by Roger Kimball, in The New Criterion (Apr. 2000), 850 Seventh Ave., New York, N.Y. 10019.

Shocking Exhibition

"The Business of Art" by András Szánto, in The American Prospect (Feb. 28, 2000), Five Broad St., Boston, Mass. 02109.

Publishing's E-Savior

"The Rattle of Pebbles" by Jason Epstein, in The New York Review of Books (Apr. 27, 2000), 1755 Broadway, Fifth floor, New York, N.Y. 10019–3780.

The Sins of Hawthorne's Fathers

"Hawthorne’s Puritans: From Fact to Fiction" by Deborah L. Madsen, in Journal of American Studies (Dec. 1999), Cambridge Univ. Press, 40 W. 20th St., N.Y. 10011–4211.

China's Passe Party

"Membership Has Its Privileges: The Socioeconomic Characteristics of Communist Party Members in Urban China" by Bruce J. Dickson and Maria Rost Rublee, in Comparative Political Studies (Feb. 2000), Sage Publications, 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, Calif. 91320.

Rwanda's Tangled Web

"Hate Crimes" by René Lemarchand, in Transition (2000: Nos. 81–82), 69 Dunster St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138.

Baht in Business

"The Big Mango Bounces Back" by Joshua Kurlantzick, in World Policy Journal (Spring 2000), World Policy Institute, New School Univ., 65 Fifth Ave., Ste. 413, New York, N.Y. 10003.

RESEARCH REPORTS

Reviews of new research at public agencies and private institutions

Book Reviews

Design for Living

SUBURBAN NATION: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. By Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. North Point Press. 290 pp. $30

Grammar with Style

WORD COURT: Wherein Verbal Virtue Is Rewarded, Crimes against the Language Are Punished, and Poetic Justice Is Done. By Barbara Wallraff. Harcourt. 368 pp. $23.

THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE(4th ed ). By William Strunk, Jr, and E. B. White. Allyn & Bacon. 105 pp.$14.95 hardcover, $6.95 paper

What Makes a Great President?

PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS. By Marc Landy and Sidney M. Milkis. Univ. of Kansas Press. 278 pp. $34.95

THE PRESIDENTIAL DIFFERENCE: Leadership Style from FDR to Clinton. By Fred I. Greenstein. Free Press. 282 pp. $25

POWER AND THE PRESIDENCY. Edited by Robert A. Wilson. PublicAffairs. 162 pp. $20

Essays

Two Concepts of Secularism

We may all be secularists now, but what kind? Today's debates over the public role of "faith-based" organizations and other church-state issues show that one idea of what it means to be a secular society is giving way to another.

Wilfred M. McClay
India Rising

Throw out the old clichés about India. It´s a growing power that the United States can no longer afford to ignore.

Stephen P. Cohen
The Other Tempest

Shakespeare's Tempest is just one place Cubans are looking as they try to imagine the post-Fidel future.  

Bob Shacochis
The Fires of the Sun

No anniversary of Hiroshima passes without reminding the world of the vast power revealed by the deceptively simple formula E=mc2. But Albert Einstein’s famous equation had another career, illuminating, among other things, the origins of the universe and its likely end. In one important chapter of that career a young scientist named Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–79) played the leading role.

David Bodanis
Explaining the Black Education Gap

The rise of a new black middle class has lifted hopes that African Americans are entering the economic mainstream. But an alarming obstacle has appeared: Many children of this new middle class significantly lag their white peers in important measures of school performance. The gap threatens the goal of quickly achieving racial equality—and the logic of the American experience itself, with its promise of upward mobility and social inclusion. Here, an African American educator offers his view of what’s gone wrong.

John H. McWhorter

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