From today's New York Times, a couple of reviews of books I've not yet read but that sound interesting:
Ian Buruma, Murder In Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance. Buruma is one of my favorites, and we're reading his work Occidentalism in the course I teach on terrorism. I read part of this work earlier when it appeared in the New Yorker, and found it thought-provoking.
Michael Berube, What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education. This follows on our discussion of partisanship in the university, and is reviewed by political scientist Alan Wolfe, who is less than convinced by its argument.
