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In a timely compilation of essays, the semiotics professor and author of The Name of the Rose looks at the modern world and what brought us here, covering such topics as racism, the European Union, the Middle East, rhetoric, technology, September 11, TV ads, Harry Potter, intelligent design, fundamentalism, anti-Semitism, and other hot-button topics.