Can rich people save the environment? Eco Barons, a new book by Edward Humes, makes a case for well-heeled environmentalism.
Posts by Jean Forst:
What’s in an IQ?
In his new book, Intelligence and How to Get It, Richard Nisbett examines the factors that contribute to IQ.
Stand and Deliver, on effective intervention programs
A new book takes an uneven look at the current and upcoming challenges facing Latinos and the U.S. educational system.
No country for Americanized men?
A Nation of Emigrants turns the Mexican immigration issue inside-out and emerges with a fresh perspective.
Work Hard, Play Hard
Jean Forst has high praise for a new book that details the Keystone Film Company’s rise and the birth of middlebrow culture.
Getting Serious About Courting the Working Class Vote
Barack Obama won big while refusing (for the most part) to go negative. Perhaps he won precisely because he refused to attack his opponent, to “pick on an invalid,” as Ronald Reagan—in an alarmingly effective …
Y’All Come Back Now
Like most Americans, I was taught that in passing the National Voting Rights Act of 1965, LBJ betrayed the South, and this region then folded itself, seemingly for good, into the arms of the GOP. …