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From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 312)Amazon controls more than 50 percent of the retail book market. By some metrics, Amazon's share approaches 80 percent. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 was passed to prevent trusts and cartels from controlling markets....
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From:Skeptic (Altadena, CA) (Vol. 27, Issue 1)American Christian fundamentalists reject Darwinian evolution for at least two reasons. The first is their belief that the Bible has revealed a clear teaching about the divine creation of the world that denies Darwinian...
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From:The Cato Journal (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAntitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age Amy Klobuchar New York: Knopf, 2021, 588 pp. Antitrust law is having its moment. As big tech companies thrived during the pandemic, public...
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From:The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide (Vol. 28, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedTHE ONLY WONDERFUL THINGS The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis by Melissa J. Homestead Oxford University Press 394 pages, $39.95 WHEN WILLA CATHER died in 1947, she had obtained many of the golden...
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From:Skeptic (Altadena, CA) (Vol. 26, Issue 4)As a scientific theory, evolution by natural selection is a historic success. Its use in human affairs has a murkier history. In Darwin's time, evolutionary theory was distorted by philosophers such as Herbert Spencer,...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedVachel Lindsay's theories of primitive verse and the Higher Vaudeville were crucial to modernist ideas about the intersections of race, orality, and the social function of poetry. Through poems like "The Firemen's Ball"...
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From:The Hemingway Review (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHemingway's distaste for H. L. Mencken has been well-documented. But the philosophical underpinnings that separated the two authors has not. This essay considers the structure of The Sun Also Rises, and argues that...
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From:The Cato Journal (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThere's an old saying that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all of the others. Or putting it another way: the best form of government is a benevolent and knowledgeable dictator, except for the...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6171)Money, it would seem, isn't what you think it is. Perhaps, for example, you believe that money is a thing and therefore gains value by being rare, that it is subject to the law of supply and demand. Or perhaps you think...
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From:Independent Review (Vol. 26, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBringing the People Indoors In the beginning, the American Revolution was about liberty. To the Americans, as to their ideological mentors, the radical English Whigs, liberty was the antithesis and eternal antagonist...
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From:Michigan Law Review (Vol. 119, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAlmost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire. By Sam Erman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. Pp. xv, 275. Cloth, $49.99; paper, $29.99. INTRODUCTION "Almost citizens." What does that...
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From:Naval War College Review (Vol. 74, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOn 26 May 1915, the Washington Post warned its readers that an invading force had "established a base, and landed troops on the shore of Chesapeake Bay," in preparation for a march on Washington. The cause of this...
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From:Washington University Law Review (Vol. 99, Issue 1)ABSTRACT Courts and scholars often view major financial legislation warily. One popular theory holds that Congress only legislates in this area when pushed by opportunistic activists in response to crises that neither...