March 3, 2010
Avatar and the Flight from Reality
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Artist of the Beautiful” (1844), a prototypical nerd with few social...
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January 11, 2010
Cheap Thrills
The love of the bargain — the good deal — the something, if not for nothing, for less than its value...
January 11, 2010
The Formation of Character
My favorite story about handwriting does not appear in Kitty Burns Florey’s winsome history. It comes from the...
January 11, 2010
Why We Walk
When autumn comes to the mountains of northwest Montana, it announces itself quietly, mostly in absences. Gone are the...
November 23, 2009
September 18, 2009
The Fusion Illusion
To hear President Barack Obama tell it, we need to fundamentally overhaul the way we produce, deliver, and consume...
September 18, 2009
Too Hot to Handle
Climate policy debates are impassioned — and understandably so. If you believe that man-made carbon dioxide...
September 18, 2009
Medicine and Moral Authority
Trusting Doctors, in large measure a history of the relationship between American medicine and religion during the...
May 24, 2009
Is Water a Human Right?
Hundreds of millions of people around the world lack regular access to clean water and sewerage. In many parts of the...
May 24, 2009
In Search of Chinese Science
One of my schoolmasters was fond of saying that there are only two worthwhile forms of worldly immortality: to get a...
