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In a recent op-ed at Forbes.com, Joan Lappin decries the merger of AT&T and T Mobile, and calls for the FCC to prevent it. Her “justification” is that if “ATT was denied the right to merge with T Mobile, T Mo might instead merge with Sprint,” which she claims “would…

On June 23, a Dutch court acquitted Geert Wilders on the absurd charges of “hate speech” or, more specifically, “inciting hatred against Muslims” in various public statements and his film, Fitna. According to BBC News, Wilders was acquitted because the court “accepted the Freedom Party leader’s statements were directed at…

In the midst of a growing number of states seeking to impose new taxes on Internet-based enterprises, Texas Governor Rick Perry earlier this month vetoed a proposed Internet state sales tax. The Star-Telegram reports that “Texas store owners have said Internet retailers have an unfair price advantage because they are…

The online edition of the Summer issue has been posted to our website. The contents are: ARTICLES   ObamaCare v. the Constitution by Paul J. Beard II The Iranian and Saudi Regimes Must Go by Craig Biddle Interview with Reza Kahlili, an Ex-CIA Spy Embedded in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Interview…

Given my core responsibilities at The Objective Standard, and the time required of me to produce the Week in Review, I have found that regular production of the latter is impossible at this time. Thus, effective immediately, I am ceasing production of the Review. I regret that I must do…

Because of my extremely busy schedule at the moment, I’ve addressed only one news item this week, but it is a crucially important one. —CB Netanyahu Appeases The Appeaser, Pretends A is Non-A, and Joins Obama in Throwing Israel to the Islamist Wolves After too-politely rebuffing President Obama for his…

Dear WiR Reader, Because I’m pushing to wrap up the Summer issue of TOS and teaching a seminar at Clemson this week, the Week in Review will not be published today. It will resume next Monday. Sincerely, Craig Biddle

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Daniel Wahl reviews Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory, by Ben Macintyre.

Daniel Wahl reviews Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, by Joshua Foer.

C. A. Wolski reviews His Dark Materials Trilogy, by Philip Pullman.

Burgess Laughlin reviews Anti-intellectualism in American Life, by Richard Hofstadter, and The Age of American Unreason, by Susan Jacoby.

Andrew Brannan reviews Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada’s Oil Sands, by Ezra Levant.

Jared M. Rhoads reviews Why ObamaCare is Wrong For America: How the New Health Care Law Drives Up Costs, Puts Government in Charge of Your Decisions, and Threatens Your Constitutional Rights, by Grace-Marie Turner, James C. Capretta, Thomas P. Miller, and Robert E. Moffit.