Discussing Liberally Salt Lake City

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Traditionally, each month’s “Reference Materials” section includes, inter alia, book reviews from –

The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Post

It appears that the Washington Post has shirked its duty.

While the NY Times has substituted for a formal book review an interview of Dan Wang re “Breakpoints” by NYT Opinion Editor Ross Douthat that consumes 23 pages containing 9,829 words.

So click here for the WSJ book review, the NYT interview and, posted in order of rank in a Google search, book reviews by –

The (London) Economist
The (London) Financial Times

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AND FOR THE DEFENSE, TWO LEGAL PROFESSORS --

Since one of the reviews claims that --

“Wang’s central contention is that China is run as an engineering state that excels at construction while the US has become a lawyerly society that favours obstruction” --

it seemed only fair to present the opinion of a Stanford Law Prof & USC Law Prof published on Stanford’s website.