A Liberal Education
What We Could Learn From India and Korea
The Ugly Models
A Passion for Truth
The Passion Fashion
A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First CenturyBy Cristina Nehring (Harper, 328 pp., $24.99) READ MORE >>
The Prohibition Era
COVERING: THE HIDDEN ASSAULT ON OUR CIVIL RIGHTS. By Kenji Yoshino(Random House, 268 pp., $24.95) READ MORE >>
The Founder
Nehru: A Political Life By Judith M. Brown (Yale University Press, 407 pp., $35) Nehru: The Invention of India By Shashi Tharoor (Arcade, 282 pp., $24.95) READ MORE >>
The Softness of Reason
In The Clouds, Aristophanes' great comedy about Socrates, a young man eager for the new learning goes to the Think-Academy run by that strange and notorious figure. A debate is staged for him, contrasting the merits of traditional education with those of the new discipline of argument. The spokesman for the old education is a he-man. He favors a tough military regimen, including lots of gymnastics and not much questioning. READ MORE >>
