June 20, 2007
Intimations of the Soul
Steve Talbott’s new book Devices of the Soul is, first, a careful and illuminating examination of technological...
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June 20, 2007
Devaluing Science
In 2001, Cambridge University Press published a book-length examination of environmental trends and other indicia of...
March 21, 2007
What’s Ailing Health Care?
In the past half century, the practice of medicine has been radically transformed by new techniques and discoveries,...
March 21, 2007
The Half-Bound World
In his invaluable Reader’s Manifesto, literary critic B. R. Myers, skewering current literary fads, offers a...
March 21, 2007
The Greening of Capitalism
After the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, the great British economist John Maynard Keynes returned to Cambridge for...
March 21, 2007
The Problem with Plagiarism
In 2004, 17-year-old Kaavya Viswanathan signed a two-book deal with Little, Brown on the basis of a few drafted...
March 21, 2007
Political Pseudoscience
In The Flight from Reality, Ian Shapiro casts a critical eye upon important trends in the social sciences, political...
January 3, 2007
January 3, 2007
Psychiatry’s Healer
Hanging prominently at the Johns Hopkins Meyer library is the portrait of Dr. Paul McHugh. McHugh served as the...
January 3, 2007
Our Childless Dystopia
P. D. James’s 1993 novel, The Children of Men, was an insightful if not entirely satisfactory look at the world we...