Number 27 ~ Spring 2010

Essays
Why Not Nuclear Disarmament?
Christopher A. Ford on the questions that disarmament advocates must answer
Proportionality in Warfare
Keith Pavlischek on the abuse of an important just war principle
The Tortured Logic of Obama’s Drone War
Hillel Ofek on the strategic, legal, and moral implications of targeted killing
The Most Useful Man Who Ever Lived
William Rosen on making heroes of inventors
Reviews and Reconsiderations
Scientists Fallen Among Poets
Algis Valiunas on what the Romantics learned from scientists, and vice versa
One Man’s Quantum Culture
Jeremy Axelrod reviews a memoir of strange science and swanky society
Avatar and the Flight from Reality
James Bowman on the sci-fi blockbuster and the mimetic tradition in art
From Cursive to Cursor
Alan Jacobs on whether it matters how we write
Bad Advice for Scientists
Ari N. Schulman reviews Unscientific America
Hawthorne Series
Artful by Nature
Charles T. Rubin reads “The New Adam and Eve”
The New Adam and Eve
Online only: A new critical edition of Hawthorne’s story
State of the Art
A Regrettable Reform
Fixing Obamacare’s Worst Policies
David Gratzer
Going Nowhere
Why President Obama Must Give NASA a Destination
Robert Zubrin
Claude Lévi-Strauss, RIP
Searcher After the Savage Mind — and Ours
Travis Kavulla
Missing the Big Picture
Studies of TV’s Effects Should Consider How HDTV Is Different
Jeff Robbins
The Case for Boredom
Stimulation, Civility, and Modern Boyhood
Adam J. Cox
Avatars in the Workplace
How Businesses Are Adapting to the Virtual World
G. Anthony Gorry







