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Daniel Lazare

Daniel Lazare is the author of, most recently, The Velvet Coup: The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the Decline of American Democracy (Verso).He is currently at work on a book about the politics of Christianity, Judaism and Islam for Pantheon.

Currently

  • Arms and the Right

    April 17, 2008

    Two books dissect the contentious, confusing debate over gun control and the frequently misinterpreted Second Amendment.

  • Letters

    March 26, 2008 Subscribe

  • Good Faith

    February 28, 2008

    Two authors posit very different views on the problem of religious conflict in a supposedly secular age.

2007

  • Lobbying Degree Zero

    October 4, 2007

    Moral mudslinging has stifled debate over the Israel lobby.

  • Stars and Bars

    August 9, 2007

    How did the American criminal justice system go so wrong?

  • Among the Disbelievers

    May 10, 2007

    In their rush to throw out God, atheist writers appear to have given little thought to what should replace Him.

  • Letters

    March 8, 2007 Subscribe

  • Letters

    January 24, 2007

  • My Beef With Vegetarianism

    January 18, 2007

    The Bloodless Revolution explores four centuries of arguments for vegetarianism, from good health to fascist politics.

2006

  • God's Willing Executioners

    November 22, 2006 Subscribe

    God's War explores the barbaric clash of Christianity and Islam, and what happens when people follow religious voices that no one else can hear.

  • Letters

    October 19, 2006 Subscribe

  • Ottoman Ghosts

    September 7, 2006

    Caroline Finkel's new book, Osman's Dream, explores the rise and calamitous fall of the Ottoman Empire.

  • On Native Grounds

    May 4, 2006

    Alan Taylor's Divided Ground examines how land-grabbing settlers destroyed Indian society and how postrevolutionary politicians speeded their demise.

  • Hatchet Man's Heresy Hunt...

    March 15, 2006 Subscribe

  • Pledging Allegiance

    March 2, 2006 Subscribe

    Todd Gitlin uses patriotism to wallop the radical left in The Intellectuals and the Flag.

2005

  • The Chosen People

    November 30, 2005

    The Jewish Century defies the conventional view of Jews as outsiders and traces their symbiotic relationship with Christians. A History of the Jews in the Modern World follows the impact the multitude of journeys that Diaspora Jews have taken on countries in the modern era.

  • Patriotic Bore

    August 25, 2005 Subscribe

    Two recent books on Tom Paine and on the unruly birth of US democracy reveal that liberal historians have become believers in the 'radicalism' of the American Revolution.

  • Letters

    August 25, 2005

  • The Heritage Foundation

    May 26, 2005

    Paul Johnson and Christopher Hitchens's new books on the Founding Fathers.

  • Death Camp or Gulag...?

    May 12, 2005 Subscribe

  • Jews Without Borders

    March 9, 2005

  • Letters

    March 2, 2005 Subscribe

  • Intolerable Cruelty

    January 27, 2005

2004

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RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 7/21/08
This week: A look at the advocacy group MoveOn.org at 10. Plus: Controversy in Africa over the indictment of the Sudanese President; Amy Alexander and Chris Rabb on the challenges facing minority journalists in their transition to the web; and The Nation's new sex column. (13mb mp3)

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