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Really Bad People: On Sebastian Junger’s ‘Tribe’
Junger’s quick look at violence, trauma, and modern anomie omits important information, and as a result ends up on shaky ground, failing to consider counterpoints or bring its own arguments to a close.
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Ethical Vertigo and the Human Genome: On Siddhartha Mukherjee’s ‘The Gene’
If ethical issues in genetics are to be solved, we’ll need not only skepticism and compassion, but also a clear understanding of the humans our choices affect.
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Die a Million People: On ‘The Colonel Who Would Not Repent’
Salil Tripathi's book serves as a primer to the current crisis -- including the extremists’ slaying of foreigners, non-Muslims, and writers that has begun since the book’s completion.
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