... two, and then tell the entire story of that theme: the history of salt; the fragility of democracy; the use and misuse of punctuation This book has no such unifying theme We did consider, for ... Most of their theories sounded perfectly logical It was the roaring 1990s economy, they said, that helped turn back crime It was the proliferation of gun control laws, they said It was the sort of ... lot of questions, some frivolous and some about life-and-death issues The answers may often seem odd but, after the fact, also rather obvious We will seek out these answers in the data—whether...