TUESDAY:
The experts at Baseball Prospectus are back at Politics and Prose to talk about America’s favorite pastime. Specifically, Clay Davenport and Jay Jaffe will be discussing It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over, a collection of stories on baseball’s most exciting pennant races. 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY:
A recent New Yorker article commented on the controversy behind Stephen M. Walt and John J. Mearsheimer’s argument in their latest book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. The authors contend that the Israel lobby has a negative influence on U.S. foreign policy, by often persuading Congress and the White House to make diplomatic decisions that aren’t necessarily in the national interest. However, criticism of Israel often is quickly denounced as anti-Semitism, as a recent Washington Post piece by Johns Hopkins professor Eliot Cohen has shown. The two authors will be at Politics and Prose for an evening that is sure to include some heated political discussion. 7 p.m.

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