Drawing on interviews with those close to President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as well as on hundreds of recently declassified private letters and telephone calls, Nicholas Wapshott depicts a more complex, personal, and at times even argumentative relationship than has been revealed. See the rest of this review here.

Alan Tonelson makes a forceful argument that globalization, with its attendant rush by multinational corporations to cheaper sources of labor, has been partially responsible for what he sees as a shift from high-wage to low-wage industries in the U.S. He points out that U.S. exports to Third World countries are dominated by manufacturing and intermediate goods that are used to build the industrial capacity that then produces goods for direct export to the U.S. The net result: lost jobs and a growing U.S. trade deficit. See the rest of this review here.

The irony of the book lies in its title. Hewitt accepts the rule book of culture for gaining influence and assumes that this does not contradict the Gospel, since the power and the influence gained are to be used in the service of Christ. He takes Paul's admonition to be "in the world" as a license to use both the aims and the techniques of the world. A little better grasp of Paul's thought might have shown that Paul wants us to live in the midst of the world in imitation of Christ, using the methods and the aims of the Gospel. In this scheme, Jesus fails to be influential. See the rest of this review by Brian Mahan.

The bottom lines is that Hugh is right - we in the Christian ministry need to see the blogosphere as a gift, not a threat. Yes, there is plenty of stuff going on out there that is threatening to the Body of Christ. There is much false doctrine, and it can travel faster and farther than ever thanks to the blogosphere. But if error can travel fast and far in the blogosphere, how much faster and farther can the truth travel. As my own blogging has evolved, I have begun to see it more and more as an opportunity. See more of this review by David Wayne.

In Where the Right Went Wrong, veteran pundit and occasional Presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan offers up scathing criticisms of Bush's policies, the arrogance and boorishness of which, he warns, could...destabilize the United States' superpower status. The problem is the rejection of Reagan era conservatism, by an administration under the sway of so-called "neoconservatives," who favor both preemptive military strategies and bigger government, and do not mind running up huge budget deficits. See the rest of this review by John Moe.