June 5, 2012
Points of Light
Two powerful recent films, 'Melancholia' and 'The Tree of Life', offer rival depictions of reality — one understood...
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May 30, 2012
What Is the Body Worth?
A cell culture called HeLa has been an integral part of medical research for decades. But it turns out that the...
July 18, 2011
The Unmanning of America
Men are out, man-children are in — or so commentators and social scientists have been proclaiming. Rita Koganzon...
July 18, 2011
Philosophy Is Here to Stay
The End of Philosophy — So declared David Brooks in a famous New York Times column: neuroscience and social science...
July 18, 2011
The Challenge of Regulating Objectively
Yale law professor Douglas A. Kysar argues in a recent book that cost-benefit analysis is inadequate for policymaking....
July 18, 2011
May 18, 2011
Bridges and the Bottom Line
On August 1, 2007, as rush-hour traffic carried workers home from their jobs in downtown Minneapolis, a decades-old...
May 18, 2011
You Can’t Handle the Truth
The advance of modern science holds out the prospect of explaining everything, from the motion of the stars to our...
January 21, 2011
Out of the Garden, Into the Laboratory
At the turn of the millennium, Paul Poskozim, a chemistry professor at Northeastern Illinois University, asked,...
January 21, 2011
The Climate of Climate Change
Climate change is inescapable. Whatever is actually happening in the atmosphere, the hubbub of politics and media...