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The Best Effect: Theology and the Origins of Consequentialismby ryan darruniversity of chicago, 320 pages, $35 When I was a teenager, it occurred to me that it would probably be...
What Sex Really Is
The Right to Sex:Feminism in the Twenty-First Centuryby amia srinivasanfarrar, straus and giroux, 304 pages, $28 In her delightful essay “Harry Potter and the Reverse Voltaire,” the philosopher Mary...
Inherited Merit
The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Eliteby daniel markovits penguin, 448 pages, $30 The system hasn’t failed; it has...
Aristotle on the Spectrum
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversityby steve silbermanavery, 560 pages, $19 The alleged link between vaccination and autism has been thoroughly studied and debunked, but...
