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A trip to
Liberty Island inspired New York-based freelancer Shawn
Macomber to pen a tirade on life in the security state
(“The Statue of Security,” page 20). Macomber is writing a
“political adventure book” that consists of a series of travelogues
covering “the good, the bad, and the ugly of class war enthusiasts,
from the state-run oil offices of Venezuela to the Mall of
America.” On his travels, he was “hassled and shaken down by
various parts of the police state apparatus in Venezuela and Kenya,
even by Iraqi soldiers,” all of which he expected. But he didn’t
expect to be harassed by burly men with guns when he reached the
foot of Lady Liberty.
Jim
Henley says John Robb’s Brave New War: The Next Stage
of Terrorism and the End of Globalization, which he reviews on
page 61, is “a thin book with a fat book inside struggling to get
out.” Specifically, “Robb asserts a larger problem—the future where
we really could have a war of all against all—but only kind of
nibbles around it.” Henley has contributed to a number of outlets,
from Chronicles to The New Republic, but he’s
best known for his popular blog Unqualified Offerings
(highclearing.com), where he writes about foreign policy, comics,
football, and poetry, among other topics.
Shikha Dalmia, a senior analyst at the Reason
Foundation, tackles college admissions in “Legacies of Injustice”
(page 32), where she argues against giving a special boost to the
children of alumni. Her interest in the topic was sparked by her
son’s experience applying to college. “I always joke that the one
good thing I did for him was to save him from the Indian school
system,” says Dalmia, who was born in New Delhi and immigrated to
the U.S. in 1985. The Indian system, she says, is “horribly
cutthroat.” But since college admissions there are based solely on
performance on a national exam, “at least it has clarity. We have
something to learn from that.” Dalmia lives in the suburbs of
Detroit, and her son is now a student at Johns Hopkins
University.
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