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2004
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Faulty Towers: Tenure and the Structure of Higher Education is a short and highly readable description of some of the problems confronting American universities.
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2004
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For years, John Stossel's "Give Me A Break" reports on ABC's popular weekly news show 20/20 and his hour-long specials have brought stories on failed regulations and government programs into the homes of millions of Americans. Stossel's new book – partly drawn from his numerous broadcasts – gives a sense of his intellectual journey from a Ralph Nader-type consumer advocate in the 1970s to his self-described libertarian perspective today.
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2004
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Americans who think they have an activist court reading new and occasionally controversial rights into their constitution should gaze up north for a peek at the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC).
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2004
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[Gregg] Rosenberg makes profound new arguments for analyzing consciousness beyond the current scope of physics, or physicalism, and offers them in a tightly written text, detailed enough to satisfy the professional philosopher, but accessible to a wider educated public.
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2004
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Is it possible for the seemingly ignorant many to make better decisions than the expert few? To what extent can ordinary people be trusted to make their own decisions in economic and political markets? Political philosophers and social scientists have debated these questions for centuries. James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds is a readable and engaging summary of the evidence showing that “crowds” of ordinary people often can and do make better decisions than small groups with a greater average level of knowledge and expertise.
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2003
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Last year’s contribution to the NOMOS series, Secession and Self-Determination is an edited volume addressing a multitude of questions and problems relating broadly to the themes of minority nationalism and collective self-determination.
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2003
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We are all familiar with the cliché, “money can’t buy happiness.” In his new book, Gregg Easterbrook tries to understand why a slight variant of this cliché is so.
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2003
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Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? focuses on the ways in which moral standards are defined. Does the answer to the question, “What is moral?” vary for different individuals, groups, and cultures? Or are there objective moral truths that demand there is only one right answer to such a question?
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2003
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Jim Powell’s title ought to serve as ample warning that Roosevelt fans will not like his book. It is arranged in such a way as to address a series of questions—for example, “Why Did FDR Triple Taxes During the Great Depression?” and “Why Did New Dealers Make Everything Cost More in the Depression?” From beginning to end, he makes it clear the traditional historical accounts of the New Deal have given the thirty-second president far too much credit, and seeks to prove it by drawing on the work of prominent economists, who in the past thirty years or so have been considerably less enthusiastic than historians about the New Deal’s accomplishments.
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2002
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As the title of Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity indicates, Kass addresses some of the most pressing issues in contemporary bioethics from the point of view of one who wishes to protect human life, human liberty, and human dignity.
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