Click Here to Read: The Immortal Mind of Nathan Glazer: ‘Nat’ to his friends, Glazer, who died Saturday at 95, was among the last of the original New York intellectuals and a remarkable thinker who never lost touch with how ideas affected real people’s lives By Martin Peretz on the Tablet website on January 23, 2019.

Click Here to Read:  Cory Booker’s Theory of Love: As he eyes a run for president, the senator from New Jersey remains stridently conciliatory. by Franklin Foer on the Atlantic Monthly website on December 17, 2018.

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Click Here to Read:  Brain scans show social exclusion creates jihadists, say researchers: International studies of young Muslim men show that radicalisation follows a sense of isolation from society by Mark Townsend on the Guardian website on January 6, 2019.
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Click Here to Read:  Short Cuts by Billy Beswick in the London Review of Books Vol. 41 No. 1 · 3 January 2019. 

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