Thursday digest

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New today from the Century:

• Allen Verhey reviews Jeffrey Bishop, who is "both a physician and a philosopher. Here he turns his clinical and analytical gaze on medicine, and his diagnosis is bleak." (subscription required)

• Rachel Stone reviews Lynn Gerber, whose "interaction with the discourses of evangelical weight loss and sexual reorientation is engaging, surprising and admirably charitable."

• Debra Bendis on teacher evaluation and the Chicago strike

• Steve Thorngate on why Amazon is building a bunch of new warehouses