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THE BIG PICTURE
In The J Curve, Ian Bremmer (Tom Friedman with a Gladwellian streak) argues that nations follow a predictable path to democracy, one we should consider before invading them. Empire-defending Niall Ferguson, meanwhile, charts the West’s decline in War of the World.
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IT’S MY PARTY
Libertarianish thinker Andrew Sullivan deplores Republican spendthrift-fundamentalists in The Conservative Soul, while former presidential candidate Gary Hart’s The Courage of Our Convictions rejects Clintonian centrism.
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GREENS VERSUS CHRISTIANS
In Welcome to Doomsday, PBS’s Bill Moyers confronts Christians who have no problem blithely awaiting environmental apocalypse, while scientist E. O. Wilson’s The Creation takes a conciliatory approach, pleading for the religious to collaborate in saving their planet.
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