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Michael J. Behe
Darwin's Black Box
The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution

Mary Lefkowitz
Not Out of Africa
How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History

Charles J. Sykes
Dumbing Down Our Kids
Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, or Add

E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
The Schools We Need
Why We Don't Have Them

Robert H. Bork
Slouching Towards Gomorrah
Modern Liberalism and American Decline

Thomas Sowell
The Vision of the Anointed
A devastating exposition and refutation of the belief system of the elites that have brought America to the sorry pass we are in today. In many ways, a warmer and more candidly passionate treatment of the same themes as Bork's book (q.v.).

Thomas Sowell
Migrations and Cultures
A World View

Merritt Ruhlen
The Origin of Language
Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue

Judith Martin
Miss Manners Rescues Civilization
From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing and Other Lapses in Civility