Introduction I. Nations 1. Show Trials and the Ritual Purifi cation of Hypermodernity -Katherine Hirschfeld 2. Postmodernism and the Fabrication of Aboriginal History -Keith Windschuttle 3. The Darfur Genocide of Black African Women -Samuel Totten 4. How Europe Escaped Speaking Arabic -Michael Novak II. Sciences 5. The Strange Career of Political Sociology in America -Howard G. Schneiderman 6. Sociology and Classical Liberalism -Daniel B. Klein and Charlotta Stern 7. Crime, Criminals and Guns -James D. Wright and Nicholas E. Libby 8. Progressions of Belief in Global Warming -Michael Crichton III. Technologies 9. Corporate Social Responsibility and Energy -Robert L. Bradley, Jr. 10. Scholarly Publishing in 1929 and 2009 -Irving Louis Horowitz 11. Feminism, Freedom and History -Christina Hoff Sommers 12. The Strategic Use of Holocaust Denial -George Michael IV. Intellectuals 13. Heroic Statesmen -Paul Johnson 14. Classical Greek Origins of Modern French Thought -Athena Leoussi 15. Harold Laski on The State -Sidney A. Pearson, Jr. 16. T.S. Eliot's Metaphysics -Peter Milward Acknowledgments