October 19, 2014
Edupunk’d
In his 1998 book Avatars of the Word, James O’Donnell, a classical scholar and academic administrator, could already...
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October 19, 2014
The Online State of Nature
Sometimes our behavior in the “real world” can illuminate the puzzles of online experience. Consider this...
October 19, 2014
A Not-So-Distant Mirror
I have been thinking quite a bit about a book I read this summer, Roy Porter’s magisterial social history of...
December 12, 2013
Reporting Mass Shootings and Suicides
Dear Ms. Sullivan, The news media have long received scrutiny for their possible role in encouraging mass shootings and...
December 12, 2013
Scientism and the Integrity of the Humanities
Austin L. Hughes responds to Steven Pinker’s attempt to put science in charge of the humanities.
September 25, 2013
Rethinking Innovation
Recently I read, and very much enjoyed, Steven Johnson’s new book Where Good Ideas Come From. Johnson’s primary...
January 18, 2013
How to Think About Our Steroid Supermen
With Lance Armstrong’s tearful televised confession and Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens denied election to the Baseball...
September 27, 2012
Reading Rachel Carson
Those who commend Rachel Carson and those who condemn her agree that it is impossible to conceive of today’s...
September 26, 2012
The Truth About DDT and Silent Spring
Published in September 1962, 'Silent Spring' was a phenomenal success. As a literary work, it was a masterpiece, and as...
May 24, 2011
Utopian Virtues
Caitrin Nicol Keiper on innocence and experience in M. Night Shyamalan's 'The Village' and Lois Lowry's 'The Giver.'