Primary Mistake: How the Washington Republican Establishment Lost Everything in 2006 (and Sabotaged My Senatorial Campaign), by Steve Laffey
(Sentinel, 212 pp., $26)
The positions staked out by Lincoln Chafee during his eight years in the US Senate could inspire enough well-deserved rebuke to fill hundreds of these pages. Alas, a small sampling will have to suffice. [...]

Intellectual diversity has been all the rage at Brown this semester. So far, the Brown Daily Herald has featured no fewer than six articles directly addressing the subject. President Ruth Simmons devoted the better part of her Spring Semester Opening Address to issues of intellectual diversity at Brown. Even many professors have been recently opining [...]