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Vonnegut on the dangers of reading

A stealth addition to the reauthorized Patriot Act allows the Justice Department to boot U.S. Attorneys and appoint new ones without seeking confirmation from the Senate or the courts. The DOJ hasn’t wasted any time. Eight attorneys got the axe recently. They were replaced, as Dahlia Lithwick observes, “with folks more willing to dance to the White House pipes.” Michigan . . .

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Danielle Steel’s Holland

Ian Buruma admires aspects of Hirsi Ali’s Infidel, but finds her descriptions of the West “as naïve as [the] romantic novels she consumed as a young girl.” (See also.)

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