April 11, 2013
Portrait of the Artist as a Caveman
Evolutionary explanations for human art and storytelling abound, but they are all too often fictions themselves. Micah...
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April 10, 2013
Jurassic Generation
'Jurassic Park' is the greatest science story ever told. This is a truth into which I was initiated on my very first...
April 5, 2013
Dog’s Best Friend
Can dogs possess virtue? Diana Schaub reads Gary Borjesson’s Willing Dogs and Reluctant Masters, a philosophical...
November 14, 2012
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty
Matthew C. Rees looks back on the debates over the Thomas Kuhn classic that brought us the "paradigm shift"
November 14, 2012
Bioethics Without Ethics
In a review of Jonathan D. Moreno’s book 'The Body Politic', Brendan Foht argues that progressive bioethics fails to...
November 14, 2012
Doctors Within Borders
Caitrin Nicol Keiper revisits Anne Fadiman’s tale of two cultures and the life of Lia Lee
August 9, 2012
The Physicists at Fifty
Samuel Matlack reconsiders the classic play about science, civilization, and insanity
August 9, 2012
The Dark and Starry Eyes of Ray Bradbury
Lauren Weiner on the wonderful weirdness of the late author
August 9, 2012
The Blessing of Children
Philosopher Christine Overall offers some strained arguments against reproduction. Gilbert Meilaender makes a case for...
August 9, 2012