CYBER WAR The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It. By Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake. Ecco/HarperCollins, $25.99. Clarke, who caused a sensation by blasting the Bush administration for failing to heed his warnings when he was counterterrorism czar before 9/11, identifies with the prophet Cassandra. But his own doomsaying...
You're an eminent philosopher at the University of Chicago. What can you tell us about the state of ideas in America? There's just something about our public culture that's not that friendly to philosophy. I think religion is thought to be where you go with your big questions. Or perhaps the business world. Yes. There has been a focus on skills...

LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality. By Martha C. Nussbaum 406 pp. Basic Books. $28.95. In Sophocles' tragedy, Antigone is caught between her religion and her state. After her brother is killed assaulting the city, her uncle Creon forbids her to bury him. But according to the tenets of her faith, if...