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Jared Diamond

Review Essay
Mar/Apr
2005
The Choice
Donald Kennedy

Jared Diamond's Collapse is a catalog of past environmental ruin. But despite the abundance of bad news, its message is one of cautious optimism: if modern society can learn from the failures of its predecessors, it can avoid their fate.
Review Essay
Sep/Oct
1998
How the West Won: History That Feels Good Usually Isn't
David Frum

Although Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel is original and convincing, his "therapeutic" approach to history confuses scholarship with social work.
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In the Magazine

November/December 2009 / 6, 88
Essay
In the Quicksands of Somalia
Bronwyn Bruton

Washington's repeated attempts to bring peace to Somalia with state-building initiatives have failed, even backfired. It should renounce political intervention and encourage local development without trying to improve governance.
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