Books, Arts & Manners: By the Numbers

The Tyranny of Numbers: Measurement and Misrule, by Nicholas Eberstadt (AEI, 277pp., $24.95)

SOME detectives are expert interrogators; others use blood typing and DNA testing. But Nicholas Eberstadt, a demographer at the American Enterprise Institute, has perfected the study of population statistics to indict perpetrators of political and intellectual crimes.