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Item Deconstructing the Republic: Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Founders’ Republicanism Reconsidered(The AEI Press) La Noue, George R.In this book, Anthony Peacock, who teaches political science at Utah State University, explores political and legal interpretations of the Voting Rights Acts (VRA) which encourage a kind of multiculturalism or identity politics that he considers destructive to the Founders’ constitutional vision. Thus, the book functions at two levels. First, it is a very useful overview of the implementation of the VRA which was extended by Congress in 2006 for another 25 years. Second, it is a provocative argument about the kind of voting arrangements Peacock believes are consistent with Madisonian Republicanism and the role of the VRA in undermining them. He concludes: “The Founders hoped that the various institutional processes of the national government would involve reasoning on the merits of legislative proposals with a view to protecting individual rights and promoting the general welfare. . . The current VRA – the VRA of second-generation voting rights – requires legislators, judges, and administrators to think in racial terms, to count in racial terms, and to allocate political power in racial terms”Item ETHICAL IMPERIALISM: INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARDS AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES(Johns Hopkins University Press) La Noue, George R.Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) are at once both ubiquitous and paradoxical in higher education. Since their creation in 1966 with a limited mandate over medical and behavioral research, IRBs now assert the right to review, amend, censor or reject any research, funded or unfunded, by any member of the academic community that involves “human subjects.” No one knows how many tens of thousands of projects are submitted and shaped by this process every year.Item Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America by Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr. (review)(The University of North Carolina Press, 2022-09) Short, John Rennie