MB Civic

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/books/review/Rosen-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

Freedom For The Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment, by Anthony Lewis.

“All of Lewis’s proposals reflect his faith that the judiciary is well equipped to balance the value of free speech against other values (like privacy and national security) in a thoughtful and independent way. But is he too optimistic? There is a competing, decidedly less heroic account of First Amendment history, which holds that judges have always tended to reflect the public’s prejudices about unpopular speakers, and that most advances for free speech have been initiated not by judges, as Lewis argues, but by political activism.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/books/review/Noah-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons, by Jacob Heilburnn

“The great mystery of the Bush presidency is why he ever jumped into bed with the neoconservatives.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/books/review/Yglesias-t.html?sq=&pagewanted=print

Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility, by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger

“The authors clearly relish their status as the bad boys of the environmental movement.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/books/review/Gingerich-t.html?sq=&pagewanted=print

Copernicus’ Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began, by Jack Repcheck

“Repcheck puts a fresh spin on Copernicus’ little-documented personal life.”