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Abraham Maslow and the All-American Self

Algis Valiunas on why the prophet of self-actualization was more than just a New Age icon

Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science

Hillel Ofek on the lost Golden Age and the rejection of reason

Out of the Garden, Into the Laboratory

Jeremy Kessler on science as an answer to Original Sin

An American Education

Democracy and the Birth of the Land-Grant College

Daniel Eugene Williams

History as Wall Art

Alan Jacobs reviews Cartographies of Time

The Most Useful Man Who Ever Lived

William Rosen on making heroes of inventors

One Man’s Quantum Culture

Jeremy Axelrod reviews a memoir of strange science and swanky society

Romancing the Atom

Uranium Prospecting, Once and Again

Robert R. Johnson

In Search of Chinese Science

John Derbyshire on Joseph Needham, sinologist and scientist

The Inventor President

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