Books in Brief July 25, 2023 We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care Book image courtesy of Penguin Random House. Liran Einav. Photo courtesy of Liran Einav. Authors: Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein Via Penguin Random House Faculty Social Sciences Evolution Evolving: The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity by Marcus Feldman, Biology How the New World Became Old by Caroline Winterer, History Against Constitutional Originalism by Jonathan Gienapp, History The Cancel Culture Panic by Adrian Daub, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages A World Made by Travel: The Digital Grand Tour by Giovanna Ceserani, Classics Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism by Ariel Evan Mayse, Religious Studies The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England by Nicholas Jenkins, English Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation by Wendy Salkin, Philosophy The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age by Thomas Mullaney, History The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos by Angela Garcia, Anthropology In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States by Ana Raquel Minian, History The Patriarchal Political Order by Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Political Science Measuring in the Renaissance by Emanuele Lugli, Art and Art History Kurt Weills Musiktheater: Vom Songspiel zur American Opera by Stephen Hinton, Music The Devil Prefers Mozart: On Music and Musicians, 1962-1993 by Anthony Burgess; edited by Paul Phillips, Music Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns, History Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship by Rachel Jean-Baptiste, History and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Defense Budgeting for a Safer World: The Experts Speak by Michael J. Boskin, Economics and The Hoover Institution The Ecology of Collective Behavior by Deborah M. Gordon, Biology The War That Must Not Occur by Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures by Gabrielle Hecht, History Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky, Biology The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives co-authored by Josiah Ober, Political Science and Classics Post-Cinematic Bodies by Shane Denson, Art and Art History The Mathematics of Shuffling Cards co-authored by Persi Diaconis, Statistics and Mathematics Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life by Asad L. Asad, Sociology A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination by Haiyan Lee, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again by A. Van Jordan, English What Even Is Gender? co-authored by R.A. Briggs, Philosophy Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State by Anna Grzymała-Busse, Political Science The Cartel System of States: An Economic Theory of International Politics co-authored by Avidit Acharya, Political Science The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason by Josiah Ober, Political Science and Classics Election Day: How We Vote and What It Means for Democracy by Emilee Booth Chapman, Political Science Shared and Institutional Agency: Toward a Planning Theory of Human Practical Organization by Michael E. Bratman, Philosophy Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire by Nora Elizabeth Barakat, History The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism by Lerone A. Martin, Religious Studies The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s by Alexander Nemerov, Art and Art History Knots, or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence by Emanuele Lugli, Art and Art History Words in My World series by Nandi Sims, Linguistics The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War by Peter Stansky, History Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala by Joel Cabrita, History Life: A Journey Through Science and Politics by Paul R. Ehrlich, Biology Exponential Families in Theory and Practice by Bradley Efron, Statistics and Biomedical Data Science View all in series