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Wired December 2003 Frank Rose	The Second Coming of Philip K. Dick The inside-out story of how a hyper-paranoid, pulp-fiction hack conquered the movie world 20 years after his death.
Wired December 2003 Gary Wolf	The Great Library of Amazonia 120,000 fully searchable texts and counting. Jeff Bezos is building the world's biggest digital book archive. It's an info-age dream come true -- and the best way to sell books ever.
HBS Working Knowledge November 17, 2003 Philip Orbanes	How Parker Bros. Created Monopoly Mania In a bet-the-company strategy in 1935, Parker Brothers decided to put everything it had behind its new game, Monopoly. Good move. An excerpt from The Game Makers.
Reason November 2003 Julian Sanchez	Dirty Words Education professor Diane Ravitch found a disturbing catalog of bipartisan censorship in public school curricula, which she presents in her new book, The Language Police.
BusinessWeek November 24, 2003 Richard S. Dunham	How The Parties Got That Way One marvel of American democracy is the durability of its founding principles. The same consistency doesn't apply to the nation's major political parties, as two companion volumes from Random House on the histories of the Democrats and the Republicans show.
BusinessWeek November 24, 2003 Jay Greene	Through A Lens, Musically Annie Leibovitz goes back to her roots in a new exhibition of portraits.
Reason November 2003 Deirdre McCloskey	Queer Science A data-bending psychologist confirms what he already knew about gays and transsexuals in "The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism."
Reason November 2003 Julian Sanchez	Eichmann in Hogwarts Harry Potter and the banality of evil
Reason November 2003 Loren E. Lomasky	Defending Tolerance In "Liberal Pluralism," William Galston argues that there is no such thing as the good life. Rather, there are many good modes of human life, and no one of them outranks all the others. Galston makes a positive case on behalf of liberal toleration.
Reason November 2003 Glenn Garvin	The Gipper and the Hedgehog How an "amiable dunce" outsmarted the world -- a review of Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism, by Peter Schweizer
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