If you want to know about Africa, read our literature and not just Things Fall Apart, because that would be like saying, I've read 'Gone with the Wind' and so I know everything about America.

BERKELEY On the back left corner of my desk right now are three recent books Arthur Brooks The Battle, Charles Murray s Coming Apart, and Nicholas Eberstadt s A Nation of Takers. Together, they constitute an important intellectual movement, which also happens to be a large part of the reason that American conservatism today has little that is constructive to say about managing the economy and little purchase on the center of the American electorate.