Thursday, 25 March 2010



Dear Readers,


The content are:


 

From the Editor

 

Letters and Replies

 

ARTICLES

 

Citizens United and the Battle for Free Speech in America

by Steve Simpson

 

Government-Run Health Care vs. the Hippocratic Oath

by Paul Hsieh

 

The Virtue of Treating People Like Animals: Why Human Health Care Should Mirror Veterinary Health Care

by Sarah Gelberg

 

The Practicality of Private Waterways

by J. Brian Phillips and Alan Germani

 

Norman Borlaug: The Man Who Taught People To Feed Themselves

by Audra Hilse

 

Making Life Meaningful: Living Purposefully

by Craig Biddle

 

BOOKS REVIEWED

 

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Reviewed by Heike Larson

 

Winning the Unwinnable War: America’s Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism edited by Elan Journo

Reviewed by Grant W. Jones

 

Why Are Jews Liberals? by Norman Podhoretz

Reviewed by Gideon Reich

 

Capitalism Unbound: The Incontestable Moral Case for Individual Rights by Andrew Bernstein

Reviewed by Ari Armstrong

 

Essays on Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, edited by Robert Mayhew

Reviewed by Daniel Wahl

 

The Sparrowhawk Series, by Edward Cline

Reviewed by Dina Schein Federman

 

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

Reviewed by Daniel Wahl

 

Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin

Reviewed by David H. Mirman

 

Newton and the Counterfeiter: the Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist by Thomas Levenson

Reviewed by Daniel Wahl

 

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Craig Biddle, Editor

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